The Naked Ape Author:Desmond Morris The Naked Ape — A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal — You will read The Naked Ape with a curious sense of involvement, for this most sophisticated book reveals the human race through the unemotional eyes of a zoologist, exposing it in a completely new light. — Since he first became intellectually aware, man has examined his higher motives but h... more »as tended to ignore those he considered base. Reason and imagination, however, have not erased the basic patterns of behavior established early in evolution. Beneath the skin, the traits we exhibit - sexually, at play, and at war - are striking evidence of our close relationship with the animal world« less