Publication

2006 - Bucknell University Press, Lewisburg, PA, Pennsylvania

Language

English

Word Count

86,750 words, Guess

Page Count

347 pages

Identifiers

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Classifications

  • DDC599.8/072/075916
  • LCCQL737.P9 D49 2006

Description

"This book is a history of the Yerkes Laboratories of Primate Biology. The facility was founded as the Laboratories of Comparative Psychobiology of Yale University by Robert M. Yerkes, one of the leading psychologists of the twentieth century. The Yerkes Laboratories became the largest and most important collection of chimpanzees for research in the world. During its thirty-five-year history it was home to some of the leading behavioral scientists of the time." "While this is primarily a narrative history of the Laboratories, various themes emerge, among them patronage, professionalization, the idiosyncrasies of individual leaders, change, urbanization, culture shock, the hegemony of medical research, race, and gender."--Jacket.

Subjects

Topics

HistoryPrimatesResearchLaboratoriesAtlanta (Ga.)Laboratory AnimalsHistory, 20th Century

Places

FloridaOrange Park

Other Editions

  • Monkey farmBucknell University Press2006

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