Baboon politics say a lot about human politics: It's tough to be on top, and the key to staying there is to know when to stress over the competition. Professor of Neuroscience at Stanford ...

What went wrong? The rupture in the shared deep history of the baboon–human relationship came with the shift from hunter-gatherer lifeways to sedentary crop farming (starting about 1,000 years ...

In 1971, Stuart Altmann and Jeanne Altmann began full-time continuous monitoring of the Amboseli baboon population (see History). Stuart was the senior scientist for the first decade. He played a ...