The Human Zoo

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Random House, Jul 2, 2009 - Social Science - 176 pages
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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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THE HUMAN ZOO: A Zoologist's Study Of The Urban Animal

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This is a highly readable but thoroughly irritating book. Morris is a forceful stylist but the same quick flow of discourse which can be insightful about modern society often edges over into blunt ... Read full review

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Contents

Status and Superstatus
41
lngroups and Outgroups
79
Imprinting and Malimprinting
97
The Stimulus Struggle
114
The Childlike Adult
143
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About the author (2009)

Desmond Morris was born in Wiltshire in 1928. After gaining a degree in zoology from Birmimgham University, he obtained his D. Phil. from the University of Oxford. He became Curator of Mammals at London Zoo in 1959, a post he held for eight years.

He was already the author of some fifty scientific papers and seven books before completing The Naked Ape in 1967, which was to sell over 10 million copies throughout the world and be translated into almost every known language.

Desmond Morris has made many television programmes and films on human and animal behaviour, his friendly and accessible approach making him popular with both adults and children, and he is now one of the best-known presenters of natural history programmes.

He is also an accomplished artists and his books inlcude The Biology of Art, The Art of Ancient Cyprus and The Secret Surrealist, as well as his familiar series of Manwatching, Bodywatching, Animalwatching and Babywatching. His study of the meaning of gestures, Bodytalk: A World Guide to Gestures is published by Jonathan Cape.

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TitleThe Human Zoo
AuthorDesmond Morris
PublisherRandom House, 2009
ISBN1409020622, 9781409020622
Length176 pages
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Psychology / Movements / Behaviorism
Science / General
Science / Life Sciences / Zoology / Primatology
Social Science / Sociology / Urban
  
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