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The Naked Ape
- 238 pages · about 4 hours
- First published 1967
- 73 editions
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1 About this book
The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal is a 1967 book by English zoologist and ethologist Desmond Morris that looks at humans as a species and compares them to other animals. The Human Zoo, a follow-up book by Morris that examined the behaviour of people in cities, was published in 1969.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Anthropology
- Evolution, history
- Comparative Psychology
- Psychology, comparative
- Human beings
- Primates
- Behavior
- Human behavior
2 About Desmond Morris
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
3 More by Desmond Morris
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