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    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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  • 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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