- Human behavior, Science, Comparative Psychology, Nonfiction
Morris looks closely at the human species under the stresses and pressures of urban living.This study concerns the city dweller. Morris finds remarkable similarities with captive zoo animals and looks closely at the aggressive, sexual and parental behaviour of the human species under the stresses and pressures of urban living.
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- gravecomic
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- Author
- Desmond Morris
- First published
- 1705
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Grasset, Clarke, Irwin, Random House Publishing Group
- Editions
- 57
- Language
- heb, Spanish, Italian, French
- ISBN
- 9780099482116
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“IMAGINE a piece of land twenty miles long and twenty miles wide.”
Desmond John Morris is an English zoologist, ethologist and surrealist painter, as well as a popular author in human sociobiology. He is known for his 1967 book The Naked Ape, and for his television programmes such as Zoo Time.
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