Make Baboon Metaphysics Officially The Weirdest Book Title Ever
February 24, 2009 at 3:01 pm
Who doesn't love Professors Robert Seyfarth and Dorothy Cheney, (excluding people studying for Tuesday's Animal Behavior midterm)? Not only are they adorable because they're married and teach together, but they do all their research together, too. And their research is on baboons. And they know all their baboon subjects by name, sight, and call.
In 2007, Seyfarth and Cheney wrote a book called Baboon Metaphysics, which theBookseller.com thought was a crazy enough title to put it in the running for Oddest Title of the Year. As the couples says in an email, "I'm sure you can imagine that no one wants to finish third in this sort of competition (a middling odd book title?)." Such ambition, these two! Since the email was sent out, they've moved up to second, but go to theBookseller.com and vote for them so they can beat out The 2009-2014 World Outlook for 60-milligram Containers of Fromage Frais.