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.
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.
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 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 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 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 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.
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.
2000 La speciation chez les primates. Primatologie, 3:213-236.
2001 Primate Taxonomy. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.
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