The Reproductive Behaviour of the Ten-Spined Stickleback by Morris, Desmond - 1958

Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1958. First edition.

1958 FIRST PUBLICATION BY NOTED SOCIOBIOLOGIST DESMOND MORRIS--HIS DOCTORAL THESIS FROM OXFORD UNIVERSITY.

9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, brown paper-covered boards, black pebbled cloth spine with gilt title, pp vi, 154, 50 illustrations in text, cover edges and corners worn, residual abrasions from removal of library stickers from bottom spine, back, and front paste-down; previous owner signature top of front paste-down, handstamp of Smithsonian Libraries top of table of contents and handstamp "withdrawn Smithsonian Institution Libraries." Binding tight, browning to first and last pages, text unmarked, good +.

DESMOND MORRIS (born in 1928) is an English zoologist and ethologist as well as a popular author in human sociobiology. In 1951 he began a doctorate in animal behavior t the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford and earned his PhD for his work on the reproductive behavior of the ten-spined stickleback (offered here). In 1956 he moved to London as Head of the Granada TV and Film Unit for the Zoological Society of London, and studied the picture-making abilities of apes. . In 1959 he left Zoo Time to become the Zoological Society's Curator of Mammals. In 1967 Morris published The Naked Ape, A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal. In 2011, Time magazine placed it on its list of the 100 best or most influential non-fiction books written in English since 1923.The book sold well enough for Morris to move to Malta in 1968 to write a sequel and other books. In 1973 he returned to Oxford to work for the ethologist Niko Tinbergen.