| Illustration Credits | |
| Map of Study Area | |
| Preface: Return to Red Rock | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction: The Hamadryas Baboon: A Desert Saint and Lecher | 3 |
| Ch. 1 | The Zoo Baboons | 23 |
| Ch. 2 | On to Ethiopia | 56 |
| Ch. 3 | The One-Sided Marriage | 98 |
| Ch. 4 | Tensions, Conventions, and Alliances among Males | 144 |
| Ch. 5 | Life Histories | 203 |
| Ch. 6 | Experts in a Thorny Land | 250 |
| Ch. 7 | Anatomy of the Social Relationship | 274 |
| Ch. 8 | The Net and the Sword | 301 |
| Ch. 9 | The Eye of the Beholder | 306 |
| Ch. 10 | Mahdi | 309 |
| Ch. 11 | The Likely Evolution of Hamadryas Society: A Reconstruction and a Summary | 313 |
| Conclusion | 319 |
| Bibliography | 325 |
| Publications by Authors Outside the Hamadryas Project | 325 |
| Publications on the Hamadryas by the Zurich Group | 329 |
| Films | 331 |
| Index | 333 |
