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.

A daring and controversial exploration of man and his environment."Desmond Morris has laid it on the line again... brilliant, witty, provocative." - Boston Herald Traveler"THE HUMAN ZOO will be as widely read as The Naked Ape, not just because it is entertaining... Morris helps us take a new look at ourselves, not against the backdrop of our accepted culture, but against the wider vistas of our biological heritage." -Chicago Tribune"THE HUMAN ZOO is more ambitious, more compelling, than The Naked Ape... absorbing and insightful... Morris is concerned with the tension between our biology and our culture, as it is expressed in power, sex, status and war games."