Exceptional popularizers: Desmond Morris

Today it is 82 years one of the popularizers that more has done to achieve that the human beings we meet us same as what we are... primates... mammalian... supported... animal.
Desmond Morris (1928-)
As always, here there presents before himself a brevísimo summary of what it is possible to see in a more detailed way in the Wikip edia, in "The Desmond Morris Information Page", or the program "Watching Desmond Morris".
Born in a small city of the South of England, under the influence of his grandfather (a typical Victorian naturalist and founder of the local newspaper) developed a deep interest in the natural history and the writing. During his adolescence also he felt attracted by the painting, beginning developing his artistic career, like member of the surrealistic, enclosed movement before joining the university. This artistic activity was continuous along all his life, being intimately intermingled by his life like naturalist... and in fact it reached certain fame and shared exhibitions with Miró. Nowadays it keeps on doing regularly.
In 1948 it initiated his Zoology studies in the University of Birmingham. After graduating three years later, it moves to the Oxford University to continue his formation with a doctorate in animal behavior. His director of thesis was the award nobel Niko Tinbergen and his topic of investigation the systems of reproductive communication. With it, his future as specialist was forged in these topics.
1952 was a good year for Desmond Morris. On the one hand, he married the student of history Ramona Baulch, and on the other hand there published the first one of 47 scientific articles that he wrote for his 15 years of academic life.
Two years later it finished his doctoral thesis on the reproductive behavior of the thorny one and initiated his postdoctoral studies, also in Oxford, moving his study object to the birds. After it there moved to London like the director of Granada TV and the Unit of Shooting of the Zoo of London in Zoological Society, devoting itself to film movies on diverse zoological topics, including animal behavior.
In 1959, after having presented the weekly program "Zootime" for three years, TV left the director's position of Granada to turn into the conservative of mammals of Zoological Society. Nevertheless, it did not interrupt his appearances in television and kept on presenting "Zootime" during a decade, in addition to collaborating with the BBC in "Animal Life in the World", going so far as to begin friendship with David Attenborough.
The sixties were very productive, with the publication of numerous books of diverse subject-matter. But, clearly, the one that gave him reputation on a global scale was "The Naked Monkey" ("The Naed Ape, to zoologist's study of the human animal"), published in 1967. It is a question of the first book that he published on the subject-matter of the animal behavior, seen from the point of view of the zoology, that is to say, analyzing the biological bases of our behavior.

The same year left his conservative's position to happen to direct the Institute of Contemporary Arts of London, although due to the unexpected success of his book on the following year it left this charge and moved to Malta to write a consequence. The book was published in 1969 with the title "The Human Zoo" ("The Human Zoo") and it treats metropolis as the behavior of the different human stereotypes inhabitants of big. This book also was an immediate success. Two years later he published a third book, "Intimate Behavior" ("Become close Behaviour"), on the bosses of physical contact in the human society.
During five years that it remained in Malta, writing and doing, his son Jason was born. Also it initiated his ambitious project to generate an exhaustive classification of the standards of behavior I humanize, whose purpose would be the creation of an encyclopedia of human conduct. With this motive it returns to his investigations with Niko Tinbergen in Oxford. The first result of these investigations is the publication in 1977 of "Manwatching, to Field-Guide to Human Behaviour", and two years later "Gestures, their Origins and Distribution". Both books, together with the precedents, constitute the base on which he wrote a new series of television on human behavior, "The Human Race", which rolled during 1980 and 1981 and was expressed in 1982. If all his books had turned him into a personality on a global scale, this series of television gave him public fame at even major levels, turning him into the big guru of the analysis of the human behavior.
From 1985 it begins to show interest in the world of the pets, writing several books ("Catwatching" and "Dogwatching" were the first ones) and initiating diverse television programs on this subject-matter ("The Animals Roadshow", "Animal Country music").
Since then, his work distributes of equal way between the painting (both human and animal), the publication on the human behavior and the television programs on pets. Between the most recent works they emphasize two series of television on human behavior, the prizewinner "Animal The Human" in 1994, which it took as a consequence "The Human Sexes" in 1997, and two books "The Naked Woman" ("The Naked Woman: To Study of the Female Body") and "The Naked Man" ("The Naked Man: To Study of the Male Body"), that tackle how the sexual differences in our body turn out to be reflected in the biology of our behavior across diverse cultures.
Undoubtedly, Desmond Morris managed to show to the big public how up to the behaviors supposedly more removed from the natural thing they could explain themselves without difficulty according to the biological needs for our species... and it keeps on doing it in our days.