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| Original Title: | The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal |
| ISBN: | 0385334303 (ISBN13: 9780385334303) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Desmond Morris
Paperback | Pages: 256 pages Rating: 3.95 | 8735 Users | 505 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal |
| Author | : | Desmond Morris |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 256 pages |
| Published | : | April 13th 1999 by Delta (first published 1967) |
| Categories | : | Science. Nonfiction. Anthropology. Psychology. Biology. Evolution |
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El mono desnudo es un libro de divulgación científica publicado en 1967 por el zoólogo y etólogo británico Desmond Morris que estudia las características animales que hacen peculiar a la especie humana. A este libro le siguió en 1969 El zoológico humano (The Human Zoo, también traducido como El zoo humano), en el cual examina el comportamiento humano en las ciudades, comparándolo con el comportamiento de los animales de los zoológicos. The Naked Woman: A Study of the Female Body (La mujer desnuda) se publicó en 2004, basado en el gran interés del autor por las ideas feministas.Rating Appertaining To Books The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal
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I don't know what sort of re-packaged edition I read originally, but it was a short, coffee-table sized hardback, with full-sized, four-colour photos of women's pupils dilating. It seems men automatically find the same photo of a woman, but with larger pupils, more attractive. I thought I'd discovered a secret key to measuring womankind, in a kind of Cosmo version of The Naked Ape. A friend in school saw my book and got very excited, but the secret knowledge within, well, that was only for me.People are animals. Our behavior has evolutionary roots-- even many behaviors we define as cultural have their basis in our prehistoric dog-eat-dog, survival-of-the-sexiest past.There, that's the thesis-- perfectly sound and very interesting. The book falls apart in the details though-- sweeping generalizations and odd assumptions about sexual behavior and gender roles and cultural supremacy without any supporting proof. Just ideas and theories that seem almost comically colored by the author's
I spent a year in Marbury, a non-authoritarian school modelled on Summerhill. It was all too weird for words. Next time any of you wonder why I don't know what continent Spain is in, or why places that are further away have times that are closer or...keep in mind that my geography text book for the year was The Naked Ape. Well, I say it was that sort of school like it's to blame for my appalling ignorance of geography. If only I'd chosen a normal school instead. But truth be told, the next year
Morris makes a great song and dance about the 'outrage' with which his book was first received. Why are people so resistant to contemplating, in the cool light of scientific 'objectivity', their 'animal nature', he asks. However, Morris' claim to neutrality is highly suspect; he urges us to learn from and accept the picture he presents of human beings, sayinghomo sapiens has remained a naked ape... in acquiring lofty new motives, he has lost none of the earthy old ones. This is frequently a
I suppose all reviews of this book must open up with the fact that it is dated - considerably. Many of the speculations and theories put forward in the text have since fallen out of favor or been outright dismissed. But as with all science books from an older era, this is not the important part! The questions and insights raised about human nature far outweigh any omissions due to the inadequate science of the times.What one can find fault with is several arguments and generalizations made about
Reading this book again after 37 years, I was pleasantly surprised at the relevant impact this book still has. Perhaps reading it after nearly four decades of experience as a member of its target species, more points in it seemed to ring true. There are probably some aspects of this book which have been called into question by subsequent research findings, but in general the materials on the human evolutionary biology and psychology I've read in the meantime seem to support Morris's positions.
I was very aware of this book when it first came out in the sixties, but for some reason it never occurred to me to read it then - wish I had, but better late than never.I picked it up this time after being intrigued by a BBC interview with author Desmond Morris.The book is a bit dated in areas such as views of homosexuality and birth control - widespread access to birth control was only just getting started at the time of the book's publication - but that is only to be expected.Morris comes up
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