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New York: The Macmillan Co., 1907. 1. 1907 FIRST BOOK BY COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGIST AND PRIMATOLOGIST ROBERT YERKES--A GUIDE TO THE STUDY OF ANIMAL BEHAVIOR BASED ON PERSONAL OBSERVATIONS OF DANCING MICE--SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 8 inches tall hardcover, publisher's brown cloth binding, embossed title to cover, gilt title to spine, inscribed and signed front free endpaper, "A souvenir to Dr. and Mrs. Nitschi, September, 1944/ from Robert M. Yerkes," frontis photographs of dancing mice, xxi, 290 pp, 33 figures, 53 tables. Light rubbing to cover edges, light browning to page edges, very good in custom archival mylar cover. ROBERT MEARNS YERKES (1876 - 1956) was an American psychologist, ethologist, and primatologist best known for his work in intelligence testing and in the field of comparative psychology. He was a pioneer in the study both of human and primate intelligence and of the social behavior of gorillas and chimpanzees. Yerkes' early career is chronicled in his National Academy of Sciences…
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SIGNED--YERKES' FIRST BOOK. The Dancing Mouse: A Study in Animal Behavior
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SIGNED. Chimpanzees: A Laboratory Colony
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New Haven: Yale University Press, 1943. First edition. 1943 ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON THE STUDY OF CHIMPANZEE BEHAVIOR BY LEADING AMERICAN PRIMATOLOGIST ROBERT YERKES--INSCRIBED TO A NEIGHBOR AND SIGNED BY HIM.9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, publisher's red cloth binding, gilt title to spine, xv, 321 pp, 63 full-page photoplates, 24 text-figures. There is an ink inscription signed by the author to Anne Vance, dated August 1943, on the front endpaper: "Anne Vance/ Our neighborly neighbor, whom ape fanatics will not bore, neither will they edify. What, then, remains but to entertain. Robert M. Yerkes, August, 1943." ROBERT MEANS YERKES (1876 - 1956) was an American psychologist, ethologist, and primatologist best known for his work in intelligence testing and in the field of comparative psychology. Yerkes was a pioneer in the study both of human and primate intelligence and of the social behavior of gorillas and chimpanzees. Along with John D. Dodson, Yerkes developed the Yerkes-Dodson law relating arousal…
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