Morris famously coined the oft-cited theory that the human female's breasts evolved to mimic buttocks so as to inspire the male's mating urges from front and back. The title of Holmes' book is a sly nod to English zoologist Desmond Morris' 1967 classic The Naked Ape. Wilson, and American author Diane Ackerman, whose book, A Natural History of the Senses, was the first Holmes encountered that showed science could be sensual. Among the science writers who have inspired her is the American father of sociobiology and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Edmund O. She draws inspiration from writers as diverse as William Faulkner and William Shakespeare, fashions her science books (she has written three) with an eye for character and plot, and laces them with humour. At college, she majored in English literature, the closest thing to a writing degree offered by the University of Southern Maine which is probably why her book is so readable. Back in the day when I was acting as loose as a snow goose, I was unaware of my biological mandate to cheat," she laughs.
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