as a Monty Python fan, seeing the book casually in the background of one of their episodes got me to read the Naked Ape; but it was his documentaries for the BBC, The Human Animal and babytalk that really homed in for me his zoology of humans.

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as a Monty Python fan, seeing the book casually in the background of one of their episodes got me to read the Naked Ape; but it was his documentaries for the BBC, The Human Animal and babytalk that really homed in for me his zoology of humans.

those docus came out when i was still contemplating if i wanted to be a mom. to this day, i say motherhood is my own human zoo & “Mutual of Omaha Wild Kingdom”.

blame Desmond Morris for that.

apespeed Mr. Morris

#RIP #zoology #sociology

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I think I scored an 90% in High School (1970s) Biology for a book report on The Naked Ape...opened some brain channels, for sure...

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I purchased The Naked Ape a few weeks ago, along with Ashley Montague’s The Natural Superiority of Women, with intent to reread. I had read these books when I was a kid, borrowed from my Mom’s collection. I finished Montague, it’s down at the neighborhood Little Free Library, just a small random act of subversion in our white Christian enclave. That’ll be Naked Ape’s destination.