Monkey Farm - A History of the Yerkes Laboratories of Primate Biology, Orange Park, Florida, 1930-1965

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. The book is, in essence, a biography of an institution.

About the author

Donald A. Dewsbury is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Society, and the Animal Behavior Society.

Product details

• Authors: Donald A. Dewsbury, Donald Donald Dewsbury
• Publisher: University Press Copublishing Division
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781611482157
• ISBN: 978-1-61148-215-7
• No. of pages: 347
• Dimensions: 168 mm x 247 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 667 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works