Social Organization of Hamadryas Baboons
by . University of Chicago, $8.95. Dr. Kummer observed baboons in the wild for some months. What he saw will console readers alarmed by Desmond Morris’ Naked Ape, for it appears that the sexual arrangements of baboons are as preposterous as anything contrived by men, if not more so. The writing is excessively scholarly — flat as a floor and infested with tables and charts, never intended for amateurs.