It was quite influential at the time and probably inspired more than one student to go off into a field of anthropology or zoology. I found a First American Edition in an antique shop and a couple of years ago added it to my To Read pile, finally getting around to reading it some 45 years after that initial exposure. Morris was rather clinically graphic in his descriptions! Anyway, anyway. I can see the attraction of the chapter he was doing the raving about - titled "Sex" - for 1970s teenage boys. I knew of this back in the later 1970s when a classmate was raving about it. Anyway, Desmond Morris's book made #6 on the list. Others have added to the list with their own recommendations, so be sure to look at the description for the correct details. The articles and result don't seem to be available anymore, but I've preserved the top 10 and the full list of 25 here. In 2012, for the 50th anniversary of the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, New Scientist magazine asked its readers to vote for the top 10 of a curated list of 25 of most influential popular science books.
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