Book review: Chasing After Chimpanzees: The Making of a Primatologist

[摘要] If you know the name of only one chimpanzee scholar, thatname is Jane Goodall. But if you know half a dozen suchnames, you know the name Bill McGrew.Race horse owner, Hibs fan and beer enthusiast, McGrew’slife has been packed with adventure – chimpanzee researchaside – and in this volume he recalls that life with great humor and gusto.I picked up Chasing After Chimpanzees expecting to learnof the genesis of some of McGrew’s signature contributionsto animal behavior. But I also hoped – I confess – to read ajuicy anecdote or two revealing youthful indiscretions of oneor two of my now-senior colleagues. There is a little of theformer in Chasing After Chimpanzees but none of the latter.Instead, McGrew recounts the more private aspects of his lifein 110 brief, lucid, absorbing vignettes. It makes for a rousingpage-turner.

[学科分类] 计算机科学（综合）