The human animal has gone from mud hut to skyscraper in the mere twinkling of an evolutionary eye to make us the most overcrowded species in the world. In this documentary,Ã Desmond Morris continues his personal view of the human species by examining how and why we cope with living inside what he calls The Human Zoo.
He shows that we deal with the stranger-filled urban environment by forming our own small personal "tribes" of friends, each with a territory and social hierarchy of its own.
Everyone else is a non-person to be blanked out. However, although this is a successful recipe for peaceful living, sometimes violence and mayhem does break out - usually between tribes but even within a tribe. If we are to survive, Morris believes we need to adapt the city to the basic nature of the human animal rather than forcing the human animal to adapt to the city.Ã
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Desmond Morris on the next generation: See Feature page 40
