Baboon Metaphysics: The Evolution of a Social Mind

by Robert M. Seyfarth and Dorothy L. Cheney

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226102432
• ISBN13: 9780226102436
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"