Primates in general

Books

1988 (with V. Weitzel and C.M. Yang) A Catalogue of Primates in the Singapore Zoological Reference Collection. Special Number, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology (Vol. 36).

1989 A Theory of Primate and Human Evolution. Oxford University Press. (2nd ed. 1991).

2001 Primate Taxonomy. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.

Papers

1970 The Forgotten Leaf-eaters, and the Phylogeny of the Colobinae. In J.R. Napier and P.H. Napier (eds) The Old World Monkeys. Academic Press.

Rhinopithecus roxellana qinlingensis

Rhinopithecus bieti

Rhinopithecus avunculus (juvenile)

1971 Systematics of the Genus Nycticebus. Proc. 3rd Int. Congr. Primat., Zurich 1970, 1:44-53.

Nycticebus pygmaeus

1972 Phylogeny and Classification of Primates. In R.N. T-W-Fiennes (ed) pathology of Simian Primates, 1:11-57. Karger, Basel.

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

1974 Taxonomy and Phylogeny of Prosimians. In R.D. Martin, G.A. Doyle and A.C. Walker (eds) Prosimian Biology, pp. 449-473. Duckworth.

1975 Comment on the proposed conservation of Pan Oken, 1816 and Panthera Oken, 1816. Bull.Zool.Nomencl. 32:68.

1976* (with P. Andrews). Gibbons and Brachiation. In D.Rumbaugh (ed) Gibbon and Siamang 4:167-218. Karger, Basel

1976 The Apes. Dyn 3:29-36.

1976 River of Monkeys. Hemisphere, 20(9):28-32.

1978 Phylogenetic and population systematics of the Mangabeys (Primates: Cercopithecoidea). Primates 19:1-34.

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

1980 Speciation in Macaca: the view from Sulawesi. In Donald D. Lindburg (ed) The Macaques: studies in ecology, behaviour and evolution, pp. 84-124. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York.

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

1981 Survey of the Tana river Colobus and Mangabey. National Geographic Society Research Reports 13:235-242.

1983 (with P.H. Napier). Simia fascicularis Raffles, 1821 (Mammalia, Primates): Request for the suppression under the Plenary Powers of Simia aygula Linnaeus, 1758, senior synonym. Bull. Zool. Nom. 40:117-8.

1985 (with V. Weitzel). The Nomenclature and Taxonomy of the Colobine Monkeys of Java. Int J.Primat.6:399-409.

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

1988 (with R.H. Eaglen). Systematics of the Lemuridae (Primates, Strepsirhini) J. Hum. Evol. 17:513-538.

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 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 "Primates" in Wheldon Owen's Encyclopaedia of Mammals, Wheldon Owen, Sydney.

1990 (with L. Christidis). A Method for Identifying Night Monkeys (Aotus) by Simple Karyotyping and External Appearance. Australian Primatology, 5:11-12.

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 (with I. Tattersall). Geographical variation in the Fork-marked Lemur, Phaner furcifer (Primates, Cheirogaleidae). Folia primatol. 56:39-49.

1992 (with C. Westwood and B.T. Shea). Unfinished Business: Mahalanobis and a Clockwork Orang. Journal of Human Evolution, 22:327-340.

1993 Catalogue of Primates in the Collection of the Museum of Victoria, Melbourne (with S. Bricknell). Australian Primatology 7(4):20-27.

1993 Catalogue of Primates in the Macleay Museum, Sydney University. Australian Primatology 7(3):8-9.

1993 Speciation in Living Hominoid Primates. In W. H. Kimbel and L. B. Martin (eds.), Species, Species Concepts and Primate Evolution. New York: Plenum Press.

1993 Order Primates. Pp. 243-278 in D.E. Wilson and D.A.M. Reeder (eds.), Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference. Smithsonian Institution Press.

1993 (with R. Angst and C. Westwood). The status of Colobus polykomos dollmani Schwarz. International Journal of Primatology, 14:573-586.

1993 Why do Langurs kill each others' babies? Australian Primatology, 7:2-7.

1995 (with John W.H.Trueman). Lemurid systematics revisited. Journal of Human Evolution, 28:427-437.

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

1996 (with P.M.Goonan & R.D.Smith). Karyotype polymorphism in the Slender Loris (Loris tardigradus). Folia primatologica, 65:100-9.

1996 The Sanje Mangabey. African Primates, 2(2):80-82.

 

1996 The nomenclature of the Tanzanian Mangabey and the Siberut Macaque. Australian Primatology, 10, 4:2-5.

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

1997 Taxonomy and phylogeny of Primates. In A.Blancher, J.Klein & W.W.Socha (eds.), Molecular Biology and Evolution of Blood Group and MHC Antigens in Primates. Berlin: Springer Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg and New York, pp.3-23.

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

1998 Systematics of Tarsiers and Lorises. Primates, 39:13-27.

 

1998 Pseudopotto martini: a new potto? African Primates, 3(1-2):42-43.

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.

2000 Phylogeny of the Cercopithecoidea. In P.Whitehead and C.J.Jolly, eds., Old World Monkeys, 77-98. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2000 The genus Cheirogaleus: unrecognised biodiversity in Dwarf Lemurs. International Journal of Primatology, 21:943-962.

2000 La speciation chez les primates. Primatologie, 3:213-236.

 

2001. Why taxonomic stability is a bad idea, or Why are there so few species of Primates (or are there?). Evol.Anthrop. 10:192-198.

2001 Primate Taxonomy. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.

2002 (with A.C.Kitchener) New insights into the taxonomy of Macaca pagensis of the Mentawai Islands, Sumatra. Mammalia, 66:533-542.

2003. (with A.B.Taylor) Patterns of mandibular variation in Pan and Gorilla. Journal of Human Evolution 44:529-561.

2004 (with R.Pan & C.Oxnard). Relationships between the fossil colobine Mesopithecus pentelicus and extant cercopithecoids, based upon dental metrics. Amer.J.Primatol. 62:287-299.

2004 (with E.Meijaard). The biogeographical evolution and phylogeny of the genus Presbytis. Primate Report, 68:71-89.

2005 Geographic variation within Eastern Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes cf.schweinfurthii Giglioli,1872). Australasian Primatology, 17, 2: 19-46.

2006 (with E.Meijaard). The geography of mammals and rivers in mainland Southeast Asia. In Primate Biogeogaphy: Progress and Prospects, S.M.Lehman & J.G.Fleagle, eds, Springer, 305-329.

2006 (with S.Merker) Tarsius lariang: A New Primate Species from Western Central Sulawesi. International Journal of Primatology, 27: 465-485.

2006. Taxonomy and Biogeography of the Primates of Western Uganda. In Primates of Western Uganda, N.E.Newton-Fisher, H.Notman, J.D.Paterson & V.Reynolds, eds, Springer, 3-20.

2006. from Calpe to Catanduanes: Babewynes, apes, marmesettes and othere dyverse bestes. In The Barbary Macaque: Biology, Management and Conservation, J.K.Hodges & J.Cortes, eds., Nottingham University Press, 1-15.

2007 (with D.Zinner, C.Roos, J-L.Fauusser & Y.Rumpler). Disputed taxonomy classification of sportive lemurs (Lepilemur) in NW Madagascar. Lemur News, 12:53-56.

2007. The endemic Uganda Mangabey, Lophocebus ugandae, and other members of the albigena-group (Lophocebus). Primate Conservation 22: 123-128.

2007 The taxonomic diversity of the Colobinae of Africa. Journal of Anthropological Sciences, 85:7-34.

2007 (with K. M. Helgen). Craniodental characters in the taxonomy of Propithecus. International Journal of Primatology, 28: 1363-1383.

Cheirogaleus crossleyi

 

 

A Squirrel Monkey Puzzle:

Saimiri sciureus

This is the type specimen of Linnaeus's Simia sciurea . What species of squirrel monkey actually is it?

Saimiri boliviensis

 

 

The chimpanzees of Bili: still a puzzle

Macaques in general, and Barbary in particular (see also printed version, Calpe to Catanduanes, above)