Book description
Here is the Naked Ape at his most primal - in love, at work, at war.
Meet man as he really is: relative to the apes, stripped of his veneer
as we see him courting, making love, sleeping, socialising, grooming,
playing.
Zoologist Desmond Morris's classic takes its place alongside
Darwin's Origin of the Species, presenting man not as a fallen
angel, but as a risen ape, remarkable in his resilience, energy and
imagination, yet an animal nonetheless, in danger of forgetting his origins.
With its penetrating insights on man's beginnings, sex life, habits
and our astonishing bonds to the animal kingdom, The Naked Ape
is a landmark, at once provocative, compelling and timeless.
Desmond Morris was born in 1928. Educated at Birmingham and Oxford
universities, he became the curator of mammals at London Zoo in 1959, a
post he held for eight years. In 1967 he published
The Naked Ape
which was to sell over 10 million copies worldwide. An accomplished
artist, television presenter and film maker, Desmond Morris's works have
been published in over thirty-six countries.
