The Naked Ape
Dans la même optique et avec le même vocabulaire que celui utilisé pour les animaux, une observation du comportement humain sous l'angle de la sexualité, de l'éducation, de la combativité et de la recherche du confort où le zoologiste démontre avec humour que l'homme est toujours un singe.
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- "The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal" by Desmond Morris. Some stuff might be outdated but it definitely helped build a healthy dose of skepticism towards fellow humans - and towards myself. You definitely need that kind of skepticism and keeping your expectations low if you want to survive in an enterprise environment.
- Interesting selection. I'm surprised to find some of my more eclectic favorites included:
- Naked Ape, Desmond Morris
- Feynman Lectures on Computation - Feynman
- Guide to Feynman Diagrams - Mattuck
- Visual Complexity - Lima
- Data Analysis - Sivia
- Emergence - Jonhson
- Well, there are guides, but none good enough that I remember. More generally, not specifically about humor, but about that kind of vision of human nature, read The Naked Ape.
- "The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal". Looking at humans as just another animal through the lens of a zoologist is eye opening
- * The Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins ;
* Human, too human, by Frederick Nietzsche ;
* The Naked Ape, by Desmond Morris ;
* La Femme est le propre de l'homme, by Rolf Schappi ;
* Biologie de la mort, by Frederik Revah ;
* The Manipulated Man, by Esther Vilar ;
- The Emperor's New Mind, by Roger Penrose
The Tao of Physics, by Fritjof Capra
Dancing Wu Li Masters, by Gary Zukav
The Naked Ape, by Desmond Morris
The Road to Serfdom, by Friedrich Hayek
The Worldly Philosophers, by Robert Heilbroner
The Story of Philosophy, by Will Durant
Grammatical Man, by Jeremy Campbell
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert M. Pirsig
Flow, by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
