Baboon Metaphysics: The Evolution of a Social Mind
by Dorothy L. Cheney, Robert M. Seyfarth
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In 1838 Charles Darwin jotted in a notebook, "He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke." Baboon Metaphysics is Dorothy L. Cheney and Robert M. Seyfarth's fascinating response to Darwin's challenge. Cheney and Seyfarth set up camp in Botswana's Okavango Delta, where they could intimately observe baboons and their social world. Baboons live in groups of up to 150, including a handful of males and eight or nine matrilineal families of females. Such show more numbers force baboons to form a complicated mix of short-term bonds for show lessTags
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Dorothy Leavitt Cheney was born in Boston, Massachusetts on August 24, 1950. She received a bachelor's degree in political science from Wellesley College in 1972 and a Ph.D. in zoology from Cambridge University in 1977. She taught at Rockefeller University, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Pennsylvania. She and her show more husband and research partner Robert M. Seyfarth studied gorillas, baboons, and vervet monkeys in Africa. They wrote several books including How Monkeys See the World: Inside the Mind of Another Species and Baboon Metaphysics: The Evolution of a Social Mind. She died from breast cancer on November 9, 2018 at the age of 68. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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