American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Papers
(The median citation count of American Journal of Physical Anthropology is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-06-01 to 2024-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Uncloaking a Lost Cause: Decolonizing ancestry estimation in the United States58
The evolution of the human trophic level during the Pleistocene48
Three‐dimensional surface scanning methods in osteology: A topographical and geometric morphometric comparison41
Skin color and race41
The need to incorporate human variation and evolutionary theory in forensic anthropology: A call for reform38
How White nationalists mobilize genetics: From genetic ancestry and human biodiversity to counterscience and metapolitics38
A paleoepidemiological approach to the osteological paradox: Investigating stress, frailty and resilience through cribra orbitalia34
Cribra orbitalia and porotic hyperostosis are associated with respiratory infections in a contemporary mortality sample from New Mexico33
A guide for an anatomically sensitive dentine microsampling and age‐alignment approach for human teeth isotopic sequences32
Indigenous data sovereignties and data sharing in biological anthropology32
P > .05: The incorrect interpretation of “not significant” results is a significant problem31
Leveraging genetic ancestry to study health disparities26
Sex estimation of teeth at different developmental stages using dimorphic enamel peptide analysis26
Morphological variants of silent bared‐teeth displays have different social interaction outcomes in crested macaques (Macaca nigra)26
Understanding racism in physical (biological) anthropology25
Shared paternal ancestry of Han, Tai‐Kadai‐speaking, and Austronesian‐speaking populations as revealed by the high resolution phylogeny of O1a‐M119 and distribution of its sub‐li23
Arothron: An R package for geometric morphometric methods and virtual anthropology applications22
morphomap: An R package for long bone landmarking, cortical thickness, and cross‐sectional geometry mapping22
Intersectionality and trauma analysis in bioarchaeology22
Life history and socioecology of infancy22
The “weanling's dilemma” revisited: Evolving bodies of evidence and the problem of infant paleodietary interpretation21
An epidemiological approach to the analysis of cribra orbitalia as an indicator of health status and mortality in medieval and post‐medieval London under a model of parasitic infection21
Ontogenetic changes in femoral cross‐sectional geometry during childhood locomotor development21
Systemic racism can get under our skin and into our genes21
The Neolithic Pitted Ware culture foragers were culturally but not genetically influenced by the Battle Axe culture herders21
Blurred time resolution of tooth dentin serial sections20
Chemosteometric regression models of heat exposed human bones to determine their pre‐burnt metric dimensions20
Tooth chipping prevalence and patterns in extant primates18
Kinetics of stone tool production among novice and expert tool makers18
Skeletal evidence of structural violence among undocumented migrants from Mexico and Central America18
Janus‐faced race: Is race biological, social, or mythical?17
Early life stress and HPA axis function independently predict adult depressive symptoms in metropolitan Cebu, Philippines17
An inconstant biorhythm: The changing pace of Retzius periodicity in human permanent teeth17
Independent associations of women's age at marriage and first pregnancy with their height in rural lowland Nepal17
Biological anthropology's critical engagement with genomics, evolution, race/racism, and ourselves: Opportunities and challenges to making a difference in the academy and the world17
Gendered division of labor in a Celtic community? A comparison of sex differences in entheseal changes and long bone shape and robusticity in the pre‐Roman population of Verona (Italy, thir17
Ancestry, health, and lived experiences of enslaved Africans in 18th century Charleston: An osteobiographical analysis16
Fermented food consumption in wild nonhuman primates and its ecological drivers16
New insights on Neolithic food and mobility patterns in Mediterranean coastal populations16
Exploring late Paleolithic and Mesolithic diet in the Eastern Alpine region of Italy through multiple proxies15
Toward a bioarchaeology of urbanization: Demography, health, and behavior in cities in the past15
Did Neandertals have large brains? Factors affecting endocranial volume comparisons14
Gorilla calcaneal morphological variation and ecological divergence14
Ring‐tailed lemurs (Lemur catta) use olfaction to locate distant fruit14
Seasonal variability in the diet and feeding ecology of black‐and‐white ruffed lemurs (Varecia variegata) in Ranomafana National Park, southeastern Madagascar14
A critical assessment of the potential for Structure‐from‐Motion photogrammetry to produce high fidelity 3D dental models14
A geometric morphometric approach to the study of sexual dimorphism in the modern human frontal bone14
Combinations of trabecular and cortical bone properties distinguish various loading modalities between athletes and controls14
Female reproductive energetics in mantled howler monkeys (Alouatta palliata): A follow‐up study13
Conceptual issues in hominin taxonomy: Homo heidelbergensis and an ethnobiological reframing of species13
The evolution of social philopatry in female primates13
Sahelian pastoralism from the perspective of variants associated with lactase persistence13
Comparing semi‐landmarking approaches for analyzing three‐dimensional cranial morphology13
Biocultural evidence of precise manual activities in an Early Holocene individual of the high‐altitude Peruvian Andes13
The biological index of frailty: A new index for the assessment of frailty in human skeletal remains12
Race, eugenics, and the canceling of great scientists12
Post‐last glacial maximum expansion of Y‐chromosome haplogroup C2a‐L1373 in northern Asia and its implications for the origin of Native Americans12
Population genetics of wild Macaca fascicularis with low‐coverage shotgun sequencing of museum specimens12
Developmental transitions in body color in chacma baboon infants: Implications to estimate age and developmental pace12
A comparison of subadult skeletal and dental development based on living and deceased samples11
The character of conflict: A bioarchaeological study of violence in the Nasca highlands of Peru during the Late Intermediate Period (950–1450 C.E.)11
Five thousand years of bellyaches: Exploring boron concentration in ancient populations of the Atacama Desert11
Troubles in Tuva: Patterns of perimortem trauma in a nomadic community from Southern Siberia (second to fourth c. CE)11
Medieval injuries: Skeletal trauma as an indicator of past living conditions and hazard risk in Cambridge, England11
Assessing thoraco‐pelvic covariation in Homo sapiens and Pan troglodytes: A 3D geometric morphometric approach11
Lack of biological mortality bias in the timing of dental formation in contemporary children: Implications for the study of past populations10
Increased dental fluctuating asymmetry is associated with active skeletal lesions, but not mortality hazards in the precontact Southwest United States10
Exploring directional and fluctuating asymmetry in the human palate during growth10
Estimation of adult age‐at‐death from entheseal robusticity: A test using an identified Italian skeletal collection10
The constraints of racialization: How classification and valuation hinder scientific research on human variation10
Evidence for a sensitive period of plasticity in brown adipose tissue during early childhood among indigenous Siberians10
An outbreak of relapsing fever unmasked by microbial paleoserology, 16th century, France10
Evaluation of the auricular surface method for subadult sex estimation on Italian modern (19th to 20th century) identified skeletal collections10
Dimorphism in dental tissues: Sex differences in archaeological individuals for multiple tooth types10
The ontogeny of termite gathering among chimpanzees in the Goualougo Triangle, Republic of Congo10
New mitogenomic lineages in Papio baboons and their phylogeographic implications9
Assessment of physiological disturbances during pre‐ and early postnatal development based on microscopic analysis of human deciduous teeth from the Late Epipaleolithic site of Shubayqa 1 (Jordan)9
Secular change in morphological cranial and mandibular trait frequencies in European Americans born 1824–19879
Sex estimation by odontometrics of nonadult human remains from a contemporary Italian sample9
The 1918 influenza pandemic did not accelerate tuberculosis mortality decline in early‐20th century Newfoundland: Investigating historical and social explanations9
Desperately seeking stress: A pilot study of cortisol in archaeological tooth structures8
Utilizing auxology to understand ontogeny of extinct hominins: A case study on Homo naledi8
Skin deep: The decoupling of genetic admixture levels from phenotypes that differed between source populations8
A comparison of axial trunk rotation during bipedal walking between humans and Japanese macaques8
Variation of bony labyrinthine morphology in Mio−Plio−Pleistocene and modern anthropoids8
Dietary changes across time: Studying the indigenous period of La Gomera using δ13C and δ15N stable isotope analysis and radiocarbon dating8
Migration and maize in the Virú Valley: Understanding life histories through multi‐tissue carbon, nitrogen, sulfur, and strontium isotope analyses8
Are entheseal changes and cross‐sectional properties associated with the shape of the upper limb?8
The accuracy of age estimation using transition analysis in the Hamann‐Todd collection8
“[This] system was not made for [you]:” A case for decolonial Scientia8
Genetic landscape of Gullah African Americans8
Examining developmental plasticity in the skeletal system through a sensitive developmental windows framework8
Novel strategies for the characterization of cancellous bone morphology: Virtual isolation and analysis7
Mass violence in Copper Age Europe: The massacre burial site from Potočani, Croatia7
Leprosy in medieval Denmark: Exploring life histories through a multi‐tissue and multi‐isotopic approach7
Coming of age in the Netherlands: An osteological assessment of puberty in a rural Dutch post‐medieval community7
Uniparental genetic markers in Native Americans: A summary of all available data from ancient and contemporary populations7
Costs of male infanticide for female capuchins: When does an adaptive male reproductive strategy become costly for females and detrimental to population viability?7
Bilateral asymmetry and developmental plasticity of the humerus in modern humans7
A geometric morphometric assessment of shape variation in adult pelvic morphology7
Male social rank and food competition in a primate multi‐level society7
Estimating age‐at‐death in burnt adult human remains using the Falys–Prangle method7
No support for the hereditarian hypothesis of the Black–White achievement gap using polygenic scores and tests for divergent selection7
Body mass estimation in hominins from humeral articular dimensions7
The upper limb skeleton and behavioral lateralization of modern humans from Zhaoguo Cave, southwestern China7
Dietary shifts and diversities of individual life histories reveal cultural dynamics and interplay of millets and rice in the Chengdu Plain, China during the Late Neolithic (2500–2000 cal. BC6
Inflammaging: Blame the sons. Relationships between the number of sons and the level of inflammatory mediators among post‐reproductive women6
Strontium (87Sr/86Sr) isotope analysis of the Namu skeletal assemblage: A study of past human migration on Taumako, a Polynesian Outlier in the eastern Solo6
Distribution of maternal lineages in hunter‐gatherer societies of the southern coast of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina6
Technical note: Artificial Resynthesis Technology for the experimental formation of dental microwear textures6
Quantifying cortical bone in fragmentary archeological second metacarpals6
Assessing the reliability of virtual reconstruction of mandibles6
Female‐directed aggression by adolescent male chimpanzees primarily constitutes dominance striving, not sexual coercion6
Associations between fecal cortisol and biparental care in a pair‐living primate6
Prevalence of cranial trauma in Eurasian Upper Paleolithic humans6
Berbers and Arabs: Tracing the genetic diversity and history of Southern Tunisia through genome wide analysis6
Homeotic change in segment identity derives the human vertebral formula from a chimpanzee‐like one6
Taxonomic diversity of Cebuella in the western Amazon: Molecular, morphological and pelage diversity of museum and free‐ranging specimens6
Relative tooth size, Bayesian inference, and Homo naledi6
Preferential snake detection in a simulated ecological experiment6
Heterogeneous frailty and the expression of linear enamel hypoplasia in a genealogical population6
Investigating genetic diversity in admixed populations from Ecuador6
Revisiting metric sex estimation of burnt human remains via supervised learning using a reference collection of modern identified cremated individuals (Knoxville, USA)6
Breastfeeding and weaning in Late Holocene hunter‐gatherers of the lower Paraná wetland, South America6
Ontogenetic and morphological variation in primate long bones reflects signals of size and behavior6
Wild chimpanzee offspring exhibit adult‐like foraging patterns around the age of weaning6
Stable isotope evidence (Fe, Cu) suggests that sex, but not aging is recorded in rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) bone6
The association of parturition scars and pelvic shape: A geometric morphometric study6
Mapping carbon and nitrogen isotopic composition of fingernails to demonstrate a rural–urban nutrition transition in the Center‐West, Northeast, and Amazon regions of Brazil6
Paleodemographic analysis of age at death for a population of Black Sea Scythians: An exploration by using Bayesian methods5
Sex differences in diet and life conditions in a rural Medieval Islamic population from Spain (La Torrecilla, Granada): An isotopic and osteological approach to gender differentiation in al‐Andal5
Increased performance in juvenile baboons is consistent with ontogenetic changes in morphology5
Ontogenetic changes in magnitudes of integration in the macaque skull5
Using a multimethod life history approach to navigate the osteological paradox: A case study from Prehispanic Nasca, Peru5
Age‐related site‐specific modifications in diaphyseal structural properties of the human fibula: Furrows and cross‐sectional geometry5
Race reconciled II: Interpreting and communicating biological variation and race in 20215
Scaling of linear anthropometric dimensions in living humans5
Fluctuating asymmetry, a marker of poor growth quality, is associated with adult male metabolic rate5
Comparative morphometric analyses of the deciduous molars of Homo naledi from the Dinaledi Chamber, South Africa5
Intraspecific variability in human maxillary bone modeling patterns during ontogeny5
Is craniofacial morphology and body composition related by common genes: Comparative analysis of two ethnically diverse populations5
Historical overview, current research, and emerging bioethical guidelines in researching the New York African burial ground5
Lone males: Solitary and group‐living male howler monkey (Alouatta palliata) behavioral ecology in a Costa Rican rainforest5
Violence in the first millennium BCE Eurasian steppe: Cranial trauma in three Turpan Basin populations from Xinjiang, China5
Axlor's level IV human remains are convincingly Neanderthals: A reply to Gómez‐Olivencia et al.5
A robust alternative to assessing three‐dimensional relative enamel thickness for the use in taxonomic assessment5
Technical note: A report on the Forensic Anthropology Database for Assessing Methods Accuracy5
Environmental and individual determinants of fecal avoidance in semi‐free ranging woolly monkeys (Lagothrix lagotricha poeppigii)4
Human burials at the Kisese II rockshelter, Tanzania4
Maternal genetic origin of the late and final Neolithic human populations from present‐day Poland4
Form in the context of function: Fundamentals of an energy effective striding walk, the role of the plantigrade foot and its expected size4
Adiposity and pathogen exposure: An investigation of response to iron supplementation and hypothesized predictors in anemic pre‐school‐aged children living in a dual burden environment4
Contrasting the ancestry patterns of three distinct population groups from the northernmost region of South America4
Adapting in the Arctic: Habitual activity and landscape interaction in Late Holocene hunter‐gatherers from Alaska4
The Ratón Pérez collection: Modern deciduous human teeth at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (Burgos, Spain)4
Tips for scientists writing about race and genetics for the general public4
Applying dental microwear texture analysis to the living: Challenges and prospects4
Exploring “wear and tear” of joints and “muscle function” assumptions in skeletons with known occupation at death4
First direct evidence of conservative foraging ecology of early Gigantopithecus blacki (~2 Ma) in Guangxi, southern China4
The Human Bone Collection of the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of Hong Kong: History and description of cranial and postcranial skeletal remains4
Common evolutionary patterns in the human nasal region across a worldwide sample4
Sexual dimorphism of the relationship between the gut and pelvis in humans4
Stressful social environment and financial strain drive depressive symptoms, and reveal the effects of a FKBP5 variant and male sex, in African Americans living in Tallahassee4
Variability of weaning age in mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei)4
Neanderthal cranial remains from Baume Moula‐Guercy (Soyons, Ardèche, France)4
An image analysis protocol for the quantification of interglobular dentine in anthropological tooth sections4
Matrilineal diversity and population history of Norwegians4
Does exposure to parasites modify relationships between diurnal cortisol and leukocytes among Honduran women?4
How ancestral subsistence strategies solve salmon starvation and the “protein problem” of Pacific Rim resources4
Population history of Brazilian south and southeast shellmound builders inferred through dental morphology4
Enamel thickness variation in the deciduous dentition of extant large‐bodied hominoids4
The association of osteochemometrics and bone mineral density in humans4
Neuromechanical linkage between the head and forearm during running4
Use of craniometric data to facilitate migrant identifications at the United States/Mexico border4
Morphological analysis of new Dryas Monkey specimens from the Central Congo Basin: Taxonomic considerations and an emended diagnosis4
Sexual dimorphism in the size and shape of the non‐obstetric pelvis across anthropoids4
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