Monkey Farm

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Monkey Farm is written by Donald Donald Dewsbury and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1611482151 (ISBN 10) and 9781611482157 (ISBN 13).

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.