- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
-
Part I The Ascent Of Man -
1 Humanity in Hindsight -
2 Battle for the Stone Age -
3 Building Citizens -
Part II Naturalizing Violence -
4 Cain’s Children -
5 The Human Animal -
6 Man and Beast -
Part III Unmaking Man -
7 Woman the Gatherer -
8 The Academic Jungle -
9 The Edge of Respectability -
Part IV Political Animals -
10 The White Problem in America -
11 A Dangerous Medium -
12 Moral Lessons -
Part V Death of the Killer Ape -
13 The New Synthesis -
14 The Old Determinism -
15 Human Nature - Coda
- Appendix
- Notes
- Index
- A Note on the Type
Man and Beast
Man and Beast
- Chapter:
- (p.113) 6 Man and Beast
- Source:
- Creatures of Cain
- Author(s):
Erika Lorraine Milam
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
This chapter looks into the work of Desmond Morris, particularly his book, The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's View of the Human Animal (1967). Morris took a more light-hearted approach to human nature than had either Ardrey or Lorenz, choosing to emphasize the pleasure-seeking aspect of human nature and the resulting sexual dilemmas of modern man. According to Morris, “the naked ape is the sexiest primate alive.” More than in any other species, he suggested, human social bonding resulted from sexual attraction and interactions. In The Naked Ape, Morris provocatively suggested that humans lost the fur covering the bodies of most other mammals because it facilitated sexual caresses and made possible the development of other, now accessible, sexual signals.
Keywords: Desmond Morris, The Naked Ape, human social bonding, sexual attraction, sexual signal, modern man, human nature
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
-
Part I The Ascent Of Man -
1 Humanity in Hindsight -
2 Battle for the Stone Age -
3 Building Citizens -
Part II Naturalizing Violence -
4 Cain’s Children -
5 The Human Animal -
6 Man and Beast -
Part III Unmaking Man -
7 Woman the Gatherer -
8 The Academic Jungle -
9 The Edge of Respectability -
Part IV Political Animals -
10 The White Problem in America -
11 A Dangerous Medium -
12 Moral Lessons -
Part V Death of the Killer Ape -
13 The New Synthesis -
14 The Old Determinism -
15 Human Nature - Coda
- Appendix
- Notes
- Index
- A Note on the Type