The Human Zoo

by Desmond Morris · 1705
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Mentioned in 1 episodes across 1 podcast: Joe Rogan Experience.

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About the book

Morris looks closely at the human species under the stresses and pressures of urban living.This study concerns the city dweller. Morris finds remarkable similarities with captive zoo animals and looks closely at the aggressive, sexual and parental behaviour of the human species under the stresses and pressures of urban living.

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Joe Rogan Experience

  • #2574 - Francis Foster & Konstantin Kisin · 2026-10-31 · with Francis Foster & Konstantin Kisin
    “my sense has always been I read this great book by a guy called Desmond Morris he was a primatologist he studied great apes and he wrote a book called the human zoo which was all about how the city creates in human beings the kind of responses that a zoo creates in animals”
    ▶ Listen from 36:28