The Human Animal
The Human Animal: A Personal View of the Human Species is a BBC nature documentary series written and presented by Desmond Morris, which focuses on the behaviour of homo sapiens, examining areas such as love and sex, baby rearing, the importance of urban habitat and the roots of our creativity.
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- Ep 1
1.The Language of the Body
27-07-199450mThe BBC's Natural History Unit focuses on the planet's most advanced animal, beginning with a look at how man communicated before the evolution of language. Some gestures and expre...
- Ep 2
2.The Hunting Ape
27-07-199450mThis episode looks at our most fundamental activity - finding food, examining how humans exploit even the most inhospitable environments, and analysing how our origins as hunter-ga...
- Ep 3
3.The Human Zoo
27-07-199450mIn evolutionary terms, the human animal has gone from mud hut to skyscraper in the mere twinkling of an eye. The cameras of the Natural History Unit capture the subtleties of human...
- Ep 4
4.The Biology of Love
27-07-199450mIn this program, Desmond Morris analyzes the biological nature of love, with its attendant patterns of behaviour and signals of health and fertility that have evolved to ensure pai...
- Ep 5
5.The Immortal Genes
27-07-199450mDesmond Morris looks at the natural history of the human parent and child. Why do homo sapiens devote more time to raising their young than any other animal? What makes parents sac...
- Ep 6
6.Beyond Survival
27-07-199450mHumans are animals with similar biological needs to other species. So why have we got art, cinema, sport, literature and philosophy? In the last programme in the series, Desmond Mo...
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