Robert Sapolsky The author of "A Primate's Memoir," and the world's funniest neuroscientist, talks about hanging out with baboons, madness in Africa and the difference between apes and his kids.

So, given that baboons are primates related to humans, what does this tell us about people? Not much, says Robert M. Sapolsky, a stress expert and biology professor at Stanford University, who ...

At last, good news for the beta male. From the wild to Wall Street, as everyone knows, the alpha male runs the show, enjoying power over other males and, as a field biologist might put it, the ...

A Primate's Memoir by Robert M. Sapolsky Scribner 304 pages, $25 "I joined the baboon troop during my twenty-first year. I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I ...

Studies by Sapolsky, who has also spent many years studying baboons in the wild, have previously shown that high-ranking males tend to have lower levels of stress hormones than low-ranking ones ...

Robert Sapolsky, a professor of neuroscience at Stanford University who has studied primate behavior, said bumper sticker one-upmanship is similar to behavior he has witnessed in baboons.

HERE’S ONE WAY to avoid anxiety over the possibility of missing “Stress: Portrait of a Killer” (Wed., 8 p.m. on WETA): Watch it with the producers and Stanford neurobiologist Robert Sapolsky ...

Sapolsky is one of the world's foremost primatologists (and funniest--he describes a particularly bad-looking baboon as resembling a "dissipated, fin-de-siecle neurotic") and the author most ...

Sapolsky and Share began studying Forest Troop, a group of olive baboons living in an animal reserve in Kenya, in 1978. The size of such troops varies from about 30 to 150 animals.

Neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky’s pleasure reading isn’t like ... and Worst,” “Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers,” and “A Primate’s Memoir,” about his life in Africa studying baboons.

Baboon model. For 30 years, Sapolsky and his colleagues have been gathering behavioral and physiological field data—such as blood samples, tissue biopsies and electrocardiograms—on African ...