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The Human Animal

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Runtime: 50m episodes
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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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Status: Ended
First aired: Jul 27, 1994
Network: BBC One
Studio: BBC, Discovery

Time to finish

5 hrs

6 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

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Desmond Morris

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SERIES

The Human Animal

19941 Season50m episodes8.0

Documentary

TMDB8.0

Votes1

Your rating

Runtime: 50m episodes
Genre: Documentary
Origin: GB

About

Where to watch

Region

Not available to stream in United States yet.

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E1 · Airs Jul 27, 1994 · 50m
The Language of the Body
The 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 expressions are so ingrained that we have not been able to erase them from our vocabulary.
E2 · Airs Jul 27, 1994 · 50m
The Hunting Ape
This 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-gatherers manifest themselves in the fast-food culture of the modern world.
E3 · Airs Jul 27, 1994 · 50m
The Human Zoo
In 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 hierarchy in an English pub, the urge to set up and defend territory in a Tokyo park, and tribal behaviour as displayed by gangs in Los Angeles.
E4 · Airs Jul 27, 1994 · 50m
The Biology of Love
In 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 pair-bonding and genetic survival. The pre- and post-pubescent periods of sexual maturation, the stages of courtship, and the aesthetics of physical beauty are studied, along with the anatomical mechanics of sexual arousal and copulation. In addition, the stresses placed on couples by life in an urbanised, crowded world are explored.
E5 · Airs Jul 27, 1994 · 50m
The Immortal Genes
Desmond 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 sacrifice so much for their children, and why, once the offspring have been raised, don't humans simply die off as other creatures do? Desmond reveals how children offer a way of overcoming death itself.
E6 · Airs Jul 27, 1994 · 50m
Beyond Survival
Humans 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 Morris examines what the human animal does when it has sorted out its basic needs - food, warmth and shelter - and has gone beyond mere survival. He explores the inventiveness of human behaviour, and comes to some fascinating conclusions.

Details

Status: Ended
First aired: Jul 27, 1994
Network: BBC One
Studio: BBC, Discovery

Time to finish

5 hrs

6 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

View on IMDb ↗

Cast

Desmond Morris

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