- Published: 31 March 2011
- ISBN: 9781446468807
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 224
Monkeyluv
And Other Lessons in Our Lives as Animals
- Published: 31 March 2011
- ISBN: 9781446468807
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 224
Compelling. His spirit of intellectual adventuring is infectious
New Scientist
Fascinating
Sunday Times
Sapolsky gives us these and many more intriguing gene factoids, but he also explains the elaborate nature/nurture interactions in which they are embedded...the book is a witty blend of anecdote and analysis
Rita Carter, Daily Mail
Sapolsky, who has a weakness for Martian jokes, is a bona fide boffin, but he looks beyond the lab for his case studies, assembling a cast that includes Sandra Bullock and a love-struck baboon named Jonathan. This highly readable book will both inform and enlarge your appreciation of the mystery of existence
Mail on Sunday
The author of Monkeyluv, an entertaining collection of essays about humans and animals, is also a luminary among that rare breed - the funny scientist. These essays on genetic wars between men and women, dreams, bad moods, ambiguity and stress are...a combination of Oliver Sacks and David Foster Wallace
Los Angeles Times
The prose is perfectly pitched: Sapolsky writes in a jocular, entertaining style without ever pandering to the presumed ignorance of his readers. And he expresses infectious enthusiasm, especially when he is reporting on new experiments performed by colleagues in his field
Steven Poole, Guardian