Desmond Morris, 98, Dies; Zoologist Saw Links Between Humans and Apes
Desmond Morris, an English zoologist who used observation, logic and insight to contend in his immensely popular 1967 book, “The Naked Ape,” that humanity, stripped of civilized veneer, is just another species of ape, died on Sunday near Dublin. He was 98. His death, at a hospital in the town of Naas, was confirmed by…