This work has become a benchmark of popular anthropology and psychology.
Zoologist Desmond Morris considers humans as being simply another animal species in this classic book first published in 1967. 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, socializing, grooming, playing. The Naked Ape 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 mans beginnings, sex life, habits and our astonishing bonds to the animal kingdom, The Naked Ape is a landmark, at once provocative, compelling and timeless.
- ISBN10 0586050132
- ISBN13 9780586050132
- Publish Date December 1981 (first published October 1967)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 May 1995
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Imprint Triad Books
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 219
- Language English