When we meet Vanessa Woods, she is a naïve, love-struck twenty-something preparing to follow her fiancé, Brian Hare (now her husband and an assistant professor of anthropology at Duke), to Africa, where they will research primate behavior. Caught up in the romance of a budding relationship, she writes: “I pictured us in matching safari outfits, striding through the Ngamba forest, baby chimpanzees dangling from our arms.