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Alison Jolly

Alison Jolly is a biologist at the University of Sussex. She is the author of Lucy’s Legacy and Lords and Lemurs.

Selected bibliography

  • Lords and Lemurs: Mad Scientists, Kings and Spears, and the Survival of Diversity in Madagascar (2004)
  • Lucy’s Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution (1999)
  • The Evolution of Primate Behaviour (1985)
  • Madagascar (editor) (1984)
  • A World Like Our Own: Man and Nature in Madagascar (1980)
  • Play: Its Role in Development and Evolution (editor) (1976)
  • Lemur Behaviour: A Madagascar Field Study (1966)

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In the LRB archive

subscriber-only content Flat Feet, Clever Hands · 7 October 2004

  • Lowly Origin: Where, When and Why Our Ancestors First Stood Up by Jonathan Kingdon  Buy this book

Sick as a Parrot · 10 July 2003

  • Wild Health: How Animals Keep Themselves Well and What We Can Learn from Them by Cindy Engel

subscriber-only content Diary: Among Lemurs · 2 January 2003

That, there, is me · 20 September 2001

  • Tree of Origin: What Primate Behaviour Can Tell Us about Human Social Evolution edited by Frans de Waal
  • The Ape and the Sushi Master: Cultural Reflections by a Primatologist by Frans de Waal

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 not available in archive Keep Me · 10 August 2000

  • Mother Nature: Natural Selection and the Female of the Species by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy