Morris argues that we are biologically still tribal and ill-equipped to thrive in the impersonal urban sprawl. Similarly, the human propensity toward antisocial and sociopathic behavior is intensified in today’s cities. Indeed, our behavior 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.Īnimals do not normally exhibit stress, random violence, and erratic behavior-until they are confined. 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.
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