Desmond Morris
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Desmond Morris was born January 24, 1928 in Purton, North Wiltshire, United Kingdom. He is a British zoologist, ethologist, author, and surrealist painter. After Morris' military service, he attended the University of Birmingham and graduated in 1951 with a First Class Honours Degree in Zoology. In mehr anzeigen 1954, he received a D.Phil from Oxford University. After graduation, Morris was a Curator of Mammals at the London Zoo until 1966. Morris was a presenter of the ITV television program "Zoo Time" in the 1950s, but may be best-known for his 1967 best-selling book, The Naked Ape, which describes the evolution of human behavior from a zoological point-of-view. Morris has authored nearly fifty scientific publications. weniger anzeigen
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Apes And Monkeys 2 Exemplare
Das Wunder der ersten Lebensjahre 2 Exemplare
නිරුවත් ගැහැණිය ස්ත්රී සිරුර ගැන… 1 Exemplar
Evolution 1 Exemplar
O casal a nú 1 Exemplar
החיה האנושית : מבט אישי על המין האנושי 1 Exemplar
על כלבים ואנשים 1 Exemplar
Observar 1 Exemplar
The Illustrated Naked Ape 1 Exemplar
Mistérios do Natal Livro 1 1 Exemplar
על סוסים ואנשים 1 Exemplar
De naakte Aap [Digitaal] : afl. 4 t/m 6 1 Exemplar
De Naakte Aap [Digitaal] : afl. 1 t/m 3 1 Exemplar
Sevmek Dokunmaktir 1 Exemplar
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Unsere haarigen Vettern. Neueste Erfahrungen mit Schimpansen (1982) — Vorwort, einige Ausgaben — 348 Exemplare
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- Gebräuchlichste Namensform
- Morris, Desmond
- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Morris, Desmond John
- Geburtstag
- 1928-01-24
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- UK
- Land (für Karte)
- England, UK
- Geburtsort
- Purton, Wiltshire, England, UK
- Wohnorte
- Purton, Wiltshire, England, UK
Swindon, Wiltshire, England, UK
London, England, UK
North Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Malta
Newbridge, County Kildare, Ireland - Ausbildung
- Dauntsey's School
University of Birmingham (BA|1951)
Magdalen College, Oxford University (D.Phil|1954) - Berufe
- artist
zoo curator
zoologist
author
ethologist - Beziehungen
- Baulch, Ramona (wife)
Morris, Jason (son) - Organisationen
- Zoological Society of London
British Army - Preise und Auszeichnungen
- Fellow honoris causa, Linnean Society of London (2006)
Honorary Fellow, Zoological Society of London (2012) - Kurzbiographie
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Desmond Morris, an accomplished artist, TV presenter, film maker and writer, was born in 1928. Educated at Birmingham and Oxford universities, he became the Curator of Mammals at London Zoo in 1959, a post he held for eight years. In 1967 he published The Naked Ape which has sold over 10 million copies worldwide and has changed the way we view our own species forever. Morris's books have been published in over thirty-six countries.
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Babywatching von Desmond Morris
Bought when our first baby arrived. We found it interesting casual reading (when we had any time left to read), but not particularly informative or useful.
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This book was maybe the beginning of my slow realization that we humans, no matter how special we believe we are, are still very much a part of nature.
Call this an exercise in bearing witness, as Morris provides an overview of a constellation of artists that, once you get past Francis Bacon and Henry Moore, you probably haven't heard of. It doesn't hurt that Morris knew a lot of these folks personally, and generally remembers them with affection and sympathy. If you want to point to an overarching trend it's the perversity of having an organization for people who were mostly "non-joiners," mostly united by their hatred of the failure of recognized authority.… (mehr)
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