Desmond John Morris FLS hon. caus. (born 24 January 1928) is an English zoologist, ethologist and surrealist painter, as well as a popular author in human...
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Culture. University of Chicago Press. pp. 18–21. ISBN 978-0-226-00182-1. Desmond Morris: The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal Crosby, Richard...
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little selective pressure as they are not a reproductive necessity." Desmond Morris suggests in his 1967 popular science book The Naked Ape that the female...
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The Human Animal (TV series) (redirect from Desmond Morris' The Human Animal)
nature documentary series written and presented by English zoologist Desmond Morris, first transmitted on BBC One in the United Kingdom from 27 July to...
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that "the economic cycle leads the hemline with about three years". Desmond Morris revisited the theory in his book Manwatching. Men's underwear index...
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The Naked Woman (category Books by Desmond Morris)
The Naked Woman: A Study of the Female Body is a book by zoologist Desmond Morris first published in 2004. The book describes the female body from an evolutionary...
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ethologist Desmond Morris theorizes that cleavage is a sexual signal that imitates the image of the cleft between the buttocks, which according to Morris in The...
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between these regions could explain the prevalence of foot fetishism. Desmond Morris considered foot fetishism the result of mal-imprinting at an early age...
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in Public (1972) p. 121 Goffman, p. 121n Desmond Morris, The Naked Ape Trilogy (1994) p. 110 Desmond Morris, Manwatching (1987) p. 144 "How to steal an...
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activities" echoes Desmond Morris's concept of "survival-substitute activities", while his concept of "the power process" combines Morris's concept of "the...
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chimpanzee artist and painter. Zoologist, author and surrealist painter Desmond Morris first observed his abilities when the chimpanzee was offered a pencil...
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"a closed fist with a wraparound thumb" meant sparing him. Zoologist Desmond Morris describes human gestures of this type to be culturally determined and...
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Italian). Ente Nazionale della Cinofilia Italiana. Accessed February 2020. Desmond Morris (2001). Dogs: A Dictionary of Dog Breeds. London: Ebury. ISBN 9780091870911...
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insolence, scorn, or offensive smugness, falling into the category of what Desmond Morris described as Deformed-compliment Signals. A smirk may also be an affected...
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The Naked Ape (category Books by Desmond Morris)
ethologist Desmond Morris that looks at humans as a species and compares them to other animals. The Human Zoo, a follow-up book by Morris that examined...
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film, loosely adapted from the non-fiction book of the same name by Desmond Morris, written and directed by Donald Driver, and starring Johnny Crawford...
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edition. Neptune City, New Jersey: TFH Publications. ISBN 0866228551 Desmond Morris (2002). Dogs: A Dictionary of Dog Breeds. North Pomfret, Vermont: Trafalgar...
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hair on the body, and is a secondary sex characteristic. Zoologist Desmond Morris disputes theories that it developed to signal sexual maturity or protect...
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Woman. In it, she contrasted the theory with zoologist and ethnologist Desmond Morris's theories of sexuality, which she believed to be rooted in sexism. Anthropologists...
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English footballer Desmond Mason (born 1977), American basketball player Desmond McKenzie (born 1952), Jamaican politician Desmond Morris (born 1928) English...
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nerve endings, and for some people is an erogenous zone. The zoologist Desmond Morris in his book The Naked Ape (1967) conjectured that the lobes developed...
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The term fistmele is a Saxon word that refers to that measurement. Desmond Morris in Gestures: Their Origins and Distribution traces the practice back...
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Buddhist and Hindu diasporas as a symbol of inner perfection. Ethologist Desmond Morris posits that the joined thumb-and-forefinger communicates precision in...
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playground. Between 1975 and 1977, a group of anthropologists including Desmond Morris studied the history and spread of European gestures and found the rude...
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December 2, 2021. Manwatching: A Field Guide to Human Behaviour, 1977, Desmond Morris Lloyd, Jillian (May 2005). "Female genital appearance: 'normality' unfolds"...
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typologies of insults have been proposed over the years. Ethologist Desmond Morris, noting that "almost any action can operate as an Insult Signal if it...
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the additional energy demanding burden she is carrying. The zoologist Desmond Morris describes a sociobiological approach in his science book The Naked Ape...
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dismissal in March 2002. The program was named after the 1969 book by Desmond Morris. The program adopted a 'phone-in' format where callers were not pre-screened...
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economist Sir Daniel Morris (1844–1933), British botanist Desmond Morris (born 1928), British ethnologist and zoologist Gareth A. Morris (born 1954), British...
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change from "courtesy" known in linguistics as syncope. According to Desmond Morris, the motions involved in the curtsy and the bow were similar until the...
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