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naked ape

noun as in mortal

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When one of my college professors, upset by its immense popularity, declared “The Naked Ape,” by Desmond Morris, unscientific garbage, I rushed out to get a copy.

As for cooling, however, Everts says, “We’re the naked ape.”

He commissioned zoologist Desmond Morris to write “The Naked Ape,” a 1967 nonfiction bestseller about evolution and human behavior.

If Rough and Rowdy Ways has an overarching theme, it is “the long, strange trip of the naked ape”.

When asked whether he’s been pondering his mortality of late, Dylan recently told the New York Times, “I think about the death of the human race. The long strange trip of the naked ape.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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