The Human Sexes: A Natural History of Man and Woman [Hardcover]

Desmond Morris (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 254 pages
• Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books (February 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312183119
• ISBN-13: 978-0312183110
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #624,764 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Desmond Morris 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.

An accomplished artist, TV presenter, film maker and writer, Desmond Morris's books have been published in over thirty-six countries.

Customer Reviews

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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The ultimate truth of the sexes, July 1, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The Human Sexes: A Natural History of Man and Woman (Hardcover)

This book truly distinguishes the fact from fiction of the human sexes.It is multifaceted in its exploration of the sexes.I highly recommend it to those who desire such noble truths.

10 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining but be careful., May 31, 1999

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[e-mail] (Minneapolis, MN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Human Sexes: A Natural History of Man and Woman (Hardcover)

Desmond Morris does a wonderful job guessing WHY certain traits are favored by evolution. His work is strictly his observations and should not be taken for scientific fact. He uses parts of fact to establish his entertaining theories. Science answers WHAT, people like Morris theorize WHY.

4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars On D. Morris' human fidelity conclusions., April 26, 2001

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Anna Poliakova (Norway) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Human Sexes: A Natural History of Man and Woman (Hardcover)

This book has been a great eye opener for me. It described so many things that we always take for granted in the woman-man relationship. At sertain points it had helped me to better understand those men I meet.

But the book raises the eternal question of the fidelity of the sexes and how to keep a relationship together. D. Morris suggests that the bond between a woman and a man has to be strong but should be able to break in times of emegency. Morris explains this in terms of the sad loss of a reproductive individual if his partner dies. But I believe that this explanation is not complete.

As Morris often compares human behaviour to animal behaviour, I wonder why this problem of 'bond -breaking' does not excist in certain animal species? (They make life long pairs and still do not look for new partners even after the death of their own. Hence these animals 'loose' their genes.)