CAROLE JAHME - Beauty and the Beasts. Woman, Ape and Evolution

London England, Virago, 2000. First Edition, Binding: Softcover, Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 1860494757 Softcover Uncorrected Proof Copy. When Louis Leakey first sent Jane Goodhall out to the Gombe reserve to study the chimpanzees, he could little have suspected that we would eventually see a field of science in which women outnumber men. Followed by Dian Fossey and Birutte Galdikas, Leakey's instinct that women would make better field scientists than men was both controversial and provocative. This book is the first book to take an overview of the numerous women who have followed Leakey's trimates into the world of primatalogy and to ask the question: was Louis Leakey right? Carol Jahme looks at the stereotypical candidate - white, amateur, attractive, middle-class, childless - and strives to find the truth about this late twentieth century phenomenon and the prejudices these pioneering women have encountered. Couple of creases to corner. Very slight wear to cover.