📚 Primates

Apes, monkeys, and us: field study from Gombe onward, the biology of the families, and the place we cannot decline to occupy.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject primates in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The Human Zoo	Desmond Morris	1705	57
	The primates	Sarel Eimerl	1965	27
	In the shadow of man	Jane Goodall	1971	26
	Intimate Behaviour	Desmond Morris	1970	21
	Different	Frans de Waal	2006	18
	Primate behavioral ecology	Karen B. Strier	1999	17
	Primates	William Charles Osman Hill	1953	11
	Man the hunted	Donna Hart	2005	11
	Mama's Last Hug	Frans de Waal	2019	11
	Mammalia	Sir William Jardine	1800	10
	Monkeys & apes	Camilla De la Bédoyère	2008	10
	History of the primates	Wilfrid E. Le Gros Clark	1949	9
	The evolution of primate behavior	Alison Jolly	1972	9
	Primate visions	Donna J. Haraway	1992	9
	Nonhuman primates in biomedical research	B. T. Bennett	1995	9
	The antecedents of man	Wilfrid E. Le Gros Clark	1959	8
	The woman that never evolved	Sarah Blaffer Hrdy	1981	8
	Sex at Dawn	Christopher Ryan	2010	8
	Amazing Monkeys	Scott Steedman	1991	7
	A hand-book to the primates	Forbes, Henry O.	1894	6
	Apes	Richard Platt	2001	6
	Primate Behavior and Human Origins	Glenn E. King	2015	6
	A hand-book to the primates	Forbes, Henry O.	1894	5
	Primates-comparative anatomy and taxonomy	William Charles Osman Hill	1953	5
	Ecology and behavior of neotropical primates	Russell A. Mittermeier	1981	5
	Primate Adaptation and Evolution	John G. Fleagle	1998	5
	Seasonality in Primates	Diane K. Brockman	2005	5
	The primate family tree	Ian Redmond	2008	5
	Primates in History, Myth, Art, and Science	Cecilia Veracini	2020	5
	A review of the Primates	Daniel Giraud Elliot	1912	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 05 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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