J.R. Napier | Britannica

J.R. Napier

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BIOGRAPHY

Director, Unit of Primate Biology, Birkbeck College, University of London. Coauthor of A Handbook of Living Primates; The Natural History of the Primates.

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Articles

Illustration comparing the body plans of representative anthropoids, showing a male western lowland gorilla, a male human, a male bonobo, a female Bornean orangutan, and male and female northern white-cheeked gibbons, all labeled and depicted to scale.

primate

Primate, in zoology, any mammal of the group that includes the lemurs, lorises, tarsiers, monkeys, apes, and humans. The order Primates, including more than 500 species, is the third most diverse order of mammals, after rodents (Rodentia) and bats (Chiroptera). Although there are some notable…

bipedalism