There are one hundred and ninety-three living species of monkeys and apes. One hundred and ninety-two of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape self-named Homo sapiens.

Desmond Morris

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Topic

Primates Man and animals

Author

Desmond Morris

Source

The Naked Ape

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1967 1960s 20th century

Occupation

Zoologist Scientist

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United Kingdom Europe

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Citation

Morris, Desmond. The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal. Jonathan Cape, 1967, introduction.

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Time
1965 1960s 20th century
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Coffin, William Sloane. "In Praise of Rest." 29 July 1979, Riverside Church, New York City, New York, USA. Sermon.

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It came to him that he had turned away from the buffalo not because of a womanish nausea at blood and stench and spilling gut; it came to him that he had sickened and turned away because of his shock at seeing the buffalo, a few moments before proud and noble and full of the dignity of life, now stark and helpless, a length of inert meat, divested of itself, or his notion of its self, swinging grotesquely, mockingly, before him. It was not itself; or it was not that self that he had imagined it to be. That self was murdered; and in that murder he had felt the destruction of something within him, and he had not been able to face it. So he had turned away.

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John Williams (novelist)
Source
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Medium
Novel
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Western fiction Western
Language
English
Time
1960 1960s 20th century
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Citation

Williams, John. Butcher's Crossing. Macmillan, 1960, pt. 2, ch. 5.