DeVore's colleagues that he is not only an eminent scholar and one of the College's most popular teachers. He is also one of the most caring people they know.
A Natural Life
By 14, DeVore was a practicing minister, preaching to a congregation of 800 boy scouts.
But just over ten years later, DeVore was completing his Ph.D. research on of African baboons. At the time, he says, there were very few published studies of primate behavioral ecology.
"You never get over your first fieldwork," DeVore says of his experiences. "It's like a virgin's first crush or first kiss."
By 1963, DeVore was deep in the Kalahari desert, performing the first professional study of the !Kung San people (Bushmen) of Botswana, who are known in the West for their click-full language.
"There's a romance to living out in the Kalahari desert," DeVore says. "You could almost read a newspaper by starlight."
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