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...last year I crossed the Atlantic in a small yacht with the help of only one young man of 24. This will show you that I am not an old baboon, grumpy, with old-fashioned hobbies. I have gone through a lot of things the hard way, and I have had to learn that life is not a dreamy bowl of cherries, and that only experience can ripen a man and bring him to his senses...
Among students at Harvard, however, DeVore is better known for his work with baboon social organization. "After I took that course," one boy said, "all I could see at parties was baboons." One reading period, two girls at Radcliffe terrorized their neighbors by re-enacting the threat and submission sequence of dominant and submissive male baboons. The "boony flicks" are popular even with students not taking DeVore's courses...
Some of the baboon films DeVore showed for Anthropology 103 and Nat Sci 17 were produced for the Education Development Commission with Jerome Bruner, for fifth-graders. DeVore now gets fan-mail from ten-year-olds, asking how they can get to Kenya, and-even better-how they can go there with him. He tries to answer all his mail, except, he says, when teachers have had all of their students write to him as a class project...
DeVore is 36, married, and has two children. He has a friendly, easy-going manner, and apologizes when he is late for appointments or has to cut them short by a few minutes. According to a friend, he spends his leisure time working, and never sleeps. He has baboon cartoons hanging on his office doors and bulletin boards...
...needs." A successful society will form a power hierarchy in which each individual knows and keeps his place; otherwise, relentless competition would doom to extinction any colony composed exclusively of top dogs. The individual is nothing, the group everything, Ardrey says. Hence, for example, it is not just the baboon or the human that evolves but the societies to which they belong...