I'm sure I wasn't the only kid with weird reading habits who found Desmond Morris's work in secondhand bookstores.
As an adult, his collaborative 1979 book on Gesture in Western & Southern Europe has been something I've returned to frequently in my research.
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Morris, who was also a surrealist painter and broadcaster, was best known for his 1967 book The Naked Ape.
