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1974 New Evidence on the Evolution of the Apes and Man. Vest. Ustr. Ust. Geol. 49:53-6.

1975 (with V. Mazak). An approach to the taxonomy of the Hominidae: Gracile Villafranchian Hominids of Africa. Casopis Pro Min. Geol. 20:225-247.

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1979 Comment on Rightmire, 'Implications of Border Cave skeletal remains for late Pleistocene human evolution.' Current Anthrop. 20:29.

1979 A View of Race. Hemisphere 23:36-8.

1979 What does it mean to be conscious? Behav. Brain. Sci. 1:575-6.

1981 Promise unfulfilled: a rejoinder to Peter Wilson. Canberra Anthrop. 4:101-9.

1981 Comment on Shipman et al., 'Butchering of Giant Geladas at an Acheulian Site', Current Anthrop. 22:265.

1981 Comment on Johnson, 'Bonobos: generalised hominid prototypes or specialised insular dwarfs?' Current Anthrop. 22:366.

1985 'Mammal Faunas and the Palaeogeograhy of the Indo-Australian Region'. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg No. 69 pp. 267-273.

1985 (with J. Sabater Pi). From Ape's Nest to Human Fix-point. Man 20:22-447.

1985 Plio-Pleistocene Mammals in Island Southeast Asia. Mod. Quaternary Res. S.E. Asia 9:43-54.

1986 The Yahoo, the Yowie, and Reports of Australian Hairy Bipeds. Cryptozoology 5:47-54.

1986 Systematics of the Great Apes. Comparative Primate Biology 1:187-217.

1988 The Evolutionary Ecology of the Hominoidea. An.Psicol. 39:87-98.

1989 A Theory of Human and Primate Evolution. Oxford University Press, pp. 384.

1989 Hominidae. Pp.910-916 in Fauna of Australia: Vol. 1B, Mammalia. (D.W. Alton & B.J. Richardson, eds.). AGPS, Canberra.

1989 The origin of human species: what we have learned about human evolution in the 130 years since On the origin of species. The Medical Journal of Australia 151:677-688.

1989 Natural selection and intelligent ancestors. Mankind, 19:76-82.

1990 Out of Africa - here we go again. In L. Freedman, ed., Is our Future limited by our Past?: Proceedings of the Third Conference of the Australasian Society for Human Biology, pp. 13-25.

1991 A Theory of Human and Primate Evolution, second edition, Oxford University Press, 384 pages.

1991 (with J.D. Paterson). Testing hominoid phylogeny with the PHYLIP program. J.Hum.Evol. 20:167-83.

1991 Genes, Genitals and Genius:The Evolutionary Ecology of Race. In P.O'Higgins, ed., Human Biology: An Integrative Science: Proceedings of the Fourth Conference of the Australasian Society for Human Biology, pp. 419-432.

1992 How old are subspecies? A tiger's eye view of human evolution. Archaeology in Oceania, 27:153-160.

1992. Creationism: the Hindu view. Review of M.A.Cremo & R.L.Thompson, Forbidden Archaeology: the Hidden History of the Human Race. The Skeptic, Spring 1992:43-45.

1993 (with D.W.Cameron). Pliocene Hominins: hunters and/or scavengers? Perspectives in Human Biology 3:23-31.

1993. Postmodernism in pseudoscience: a creationist's deconstructtion of Gish. Review of M.Lubenow, Bones of Contention: a Creationist Assessment of Human Fossils. The Skeptic, Spring 1993: 20-22.

1993 Human origins; The Neanderthals; and Dating the Past. Pp. 33-52, 68 and 74-75, The Illustrated History of Humankind, Vol. 1, The First Humans. Harper San Francisco.

1994 The origin of modern humans. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 19:23-34.

1996 (with J.Shoshani, E.L.Simons & G.F.Gunnell). Primate phylogeny: morphological vs molecular results. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 5:102-154.

1996 Australopithecus afarensis Johanson, 1978 (Mammalia, Primates): proposed conservation of the specific name. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 53:24-7.

1996 Great Apes: the conflict of gene-pools, conservation and personhood. Perspectives in Human Biology 2:31-36.

1996 Hovering on the brink: nearly but not quite getting to Australia. Perspectives in Human Biology, 2:83-7.

1996 From Ussher to Slusher; from Archbish to Gish; or, not in a million years... Archaeology in Oceania 31:145- 151.

1997 Thinking about evolutionary change: the polarity of our ancestors. In G.A.Clark and C.M.Willermet (eds), Conceptual Issues in Modern Human Origins. Aldine de Gruyter, N.Y., 1997, pp 319-326.

1997 Species concept in palaeoanthropology. Perspectives in Human Biology, 3:13-20.

1998 The proximal ulna from Klasies River. Journal of Human Evolution, 34:119-121.

1998 (with M.Goodman, C.A.Porter, J.Czelusniak, S.L.Page, H.Schneider, J.Shoshani and G.Gunnell). Toward a phylogenetic classification of Primates based on DNA evidence complemented by fossil evidence. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 9:585-598.

1999 The advantages and disadvantages of being domesticated (A Keynote Address). Perspectives in Human Biology, 4:1-12.

1999 Australopithecus garhi: a new-found link? Reports of the National Center for Science Education, 19, 3:10-13.

1999 Nomenclature of African Plio-Pleistocene hominins. Journal of Human Evolution, 37:869-872.

1999 (with A.Thorne). The terminal Pleistocene and early Holocene populations of northern Africa. Homo, 50, 3:249-262.

2000 (with A.Thorne). The affinities of the Klasies River Mouth remains. In J.S.Chisholm (ed.), Towards Consilience: Perspectives in Human Biology, 5:43-53.

2000 (with M.Chech, A.Thorne & E.Trinkaus). A new reconstruction of the Shanidar 5 cranium. Paléorient, 25:143-146.

2000. Review of Fr Patrick O'Connell, Science of Today and the Problems of Genesis. NCSE Reports, 20, 6:17-18, 23-24.

2001. Lake Mungo 3 and his DNA. pp.166-167 in Adcock, et al., Forum: Mitochondrial DNA sequences in ancient Australians. Archaeology in Oceania, 36:163-174.

2003. The science of culture. Being Human: Science, Culture and Fear: Royal Society of New Zealand, Miscellaneous Series, 63:3-13.

2004 (with David W.Cameron) Bones, Stones and Molecules. Amsterda, Boston etc.: Elsevier Academic Press.

2006 Humans among Primates. In J.R.Merrick, M.Archer, G.M.Hickey & M.S.Y.Lee (eds.), Evolution and Biogeography of Australasian Vertebrates. Oatlands, NSW: Australian Scientific Publishing.