The Human Zoo

Author: Desmond Morris

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A masterpiece psychology and sociology book.

How does city life change the way we act? What accounts for the increasing prevalence of violence and anxiety in our world? In this new edition of his controversial 1969 bestseller, The Human Zoo, renowned zoologist Desmond Morris argues that many of the social instabilities we face are largely a product of the artificial, impersonal confines of our urban surroundings. Indeed, our behaviour often startlingly resembles that of captive animals, and our developed and urbane environment seems not so much a concrete jungle as it does a human zoo.

Animals do not normally exhibit stress, random violence, and erratic behaviour until they are confined. Similarly, the human propensity toward antisocial and sociopathic behaviour is intensified in todays' cities. Morris argues that we are biologically still tribal and ill-equipped to thrive in the impersonal urban sprawl. As important and meaningful today as it was half a century ago.

The Human Zoo sounds an urgent warning and provides startling insight into our increasingly complex lives.

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