Journal of Human Evolution

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Human Evolution is 2. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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Paleoenvironments represented by the sediments of the Early Pliocene Mursi Formation, Omo Valley, Ethiopia66
The foot of the human–chimpanzee last common ancestor was not African ape-like: A response to Prang (2019)42
A fistful of fossils: The rise and fall of the Orce Man and the politics of paleoanthropological science37
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On the age of Ain Hanech Oldowan locality (Algeria): First numerical dating results31
Calcar femorale variation in extant and fossil hominids: Implications for identifying bipedal locomotion in fossil hominins30
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The human remains of Final Gravettian age from the Reclau Viver and Mollet III caves (Serinyà, NE Iberian Peninsula)28
Morphological disparity and evolutionary transformations in the primate hyoid apparatus26
Aspects of molar form and dietary proclivities of African colobines26
Sedimentary ancient DNA metabarcoding as a tool for assessing prehistoric plant use at the Upper Paleolithic cave site Aghitu-3, Armenia24
One journal to bring them all, and in the fossils bind them24
Femoral neck cortical bone distribution in Nacholapithecus from the Middle Miocene of Kenya22
Acetabular orientation, pelvic shape, and the evolution of hominin bipedality22
Molar enamel–dentine junction shape of Pliobates cataloniae and other Iberian pliopithecoids22
JHE 50th anniversary: Generosity21
Virtual reconstruction and geometric morphometric analysis of the Kocabaş hominin fossil from Turkey: Implications for taxonomy and evolutionary significance21
Sex-biased sampling may influence Homo naledi tooth size variation21
Enamel thickness in the deciduous postcanine dentition of fossil and extant Pongo21
The macroevolutionary dynamics of activity pattern in mammals: Primates in context20
An updated analysis of hominin phylogeny with an emphasis on re-evaluating the phylogenetic relationships of Australopithecus sediba20
Exploring the lack of articular ends at the Middle Pleistocene site of Qesem Cave, Israel20
Eastern African environmental variation and its role in the evolution and cultural change of Homo over the last 1 million years20
Introduction to special issue: In search for modern humans and the Early Upper Paleolithic at Manot Cave, Western Galilee, Israel19
Corrigendum to “The effect of bi-iliac breadth on core body temperature” [J. Hum. Evol. 195 (2024) 103580]19
Early evidence for bear exploitation during MIS 9 from the site of Schöningen 12 (Germany)19
Challenges and perspectives on functional interpretations of australopith postcrania and the reconstruction of hominin locomotion19
Late Acheulean occupations at Montagu Cave and the pattern of Middle Pleistocene behavioral change in Western Cape, southern Africa19
Dating the last Middle Palaeolithic of the Crimean Peninsula: New hydroxyproline AMS dates from the site of Kabazi II19
Early euprimates already had a diverse locomotor repertoire: Evidence from ankle bone morphology19
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Distinguishing primate taxa with enamel incremental variables17
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Micro-computed tomography unveils anatomy of the oldest known plesiadapiform cranium16
A cadaveric study of wrist-joint moments in chimpanzees and orangutans with implications for the evolution of knuckle-walking16
The stratigraphy and formation of Middle Stone Age deposits in Cave 1B, Klasies River Main site, South Africa, with implications for the context, age, and cultural association of the KRM 41815/SAM-AP 16
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The earliest hylobatid from the Late Miocene of China16
Stable isotope evidence of human diet in Mediterranean context during the Last Glacial Maximum16
Morphological integration and evolutionary potential of the primate shoulder: Variation among taxa and implications for genetic covariances with the basicranium, pelvis, and arm16
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Karst terrain in the western upper Galilee, Israel: Speleogenesis, hydrogeology and human preference of Manot Cave16
Jaw-muscle fiber architecture and skull form facilitate relatively wide jaw gapes in male cercopithecoid monkeys15
Phylogenetic comparative analysis of suspensory adaptations in primates15
Two Late Pleistocene human femora from Trinil, Indonesia: Implications for body size and behavior in Southeast Asia15
JHE: The case for preserving a legacy journal and its community15
The Marine Isotope Stage 5 (∼105 ka) lithic assemblage from Ga-Mohana Hill North Rockshelter and insights into social transmission across the Kalahari Basin and its environs15
Evolutionary trend in dental size in fossil orangutans from the Pleistocene of Chongzuo, Guangxi, southern China15
The fauna from Mughr el-Hamamah, Jordan: Insights on human hunting behavior during the Early Upper Paleolithic15
Trabecular bone volume fraction in Holocene and Late Pleistocene humans15
An ancient cranium from Dmanisi: Evidence for interpersonal violence, disease, and possible predation by carnivores on Early Pleistocene Homo14
Before the Acheulean: The emergence of bifacial shaping at Kokiselei 6 (1.8 Ma), West Turkana, Kenya14
Direct cosmogenic nuclide isochron burial dating of early Acheulian stone tools at the T69 Complex (FLK West, Olduvai Bed II, Tanzania)14
Description and taxonomic assessment of fossil Cercopithecidae from the Pliocene Galili Formation (Ethiopia)14
Early Upper Paleolithic cultural variability in the Southern Levant: New evidence from Nahal Rahaf 2 Rockshelter, Judean Desert, Israel14
A three-dimensional geometric morphometric study of Miocene ape lumbar vertebrae, with implications for hominoid locomotor evolution14
Adaptations for bipedal walking: Musculoskeletal structure and three-dimensional joint mechanics of humans and bipedal chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)14
Biomechanical correlates of zygomaxillary-surface shape in papionin primates and the effects of hard-object feeding on mangabey facial form13
Hominin nomenclature and the importance of information systems for managing complexity in paleoanthropology13
Three-dimensional geometric morphometric study of the Xuchang 2 cranium13
Reconstructing the provenance of the hominin fossils from Trinil (Java, Indonesia) through an integrated analysis of the historical and recent excavations13
Unexpected variation of human molar size patterns12
Ulnar morphology of Pliobates cataloniae (Pliopithecoidea: Crouzeliidae): Insights into catarrhine locomotor diversity and forelimb evolution12
First articulating os coxae, femur, and tibia of a small adult Paranthropus robustus from Member 1 (Hanging Remnant) of the Swartkrans Formation, South Africa12
A chimpanzee enamel-diet δ13C enrichment factor and a refined enamel sampling strategy: Implications for dietary reconstructions12
A Late Middle Pleistocene human tooth from the Luonan Basin (Shaanxi, China)12
Morphological variation of the maxilla in modern humans and African apes12
Morphological affinities of a fossil ulna (KNM-WS 65401) from Buluk, Kenya12
Corrigendum to “Biomechanics of the mandible of Macaca mulatta during the power stroke of mastication: Loading, deformation, and strain regimes and the impact of food type” [Journal of Human Evolution11
An ape partial postcranial skeleton (KNM-NP 64631) from the Middle Miocene of Napudet, northern Kenya11
Investigating foundations for hominin fire exploitation: Savanna-dwelling chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in fire-altered landscapes11
Initial Upper Paleolithic bone technology and personal ornaments at Bacho Kiro Cave (Bulgaria)11
Portable x-ray fluorescence spectroscopy geochemical sourcing of Miocene primate fossils from Kenya11
Variations by degrees: Western European paleoenvironmental fluctuations across MIS 13–1110
The taxonomic attribution of African hominin postcrania from the Miocene through the Pleistocene: Associations and assumptions10
Effect of binocular visual cue availability on fruit and insect grasping performance in two cheirogaleids: Implications for primate origins hypotheses10
The pectoral girdle of StW 573 (‘Little Foot’) and its implications for shoulder evolution in the Hominina10
Personal ornaments from Hayonim and Manot caves (Israel) hint at symbolic ties between the Levantine and the European Aurignacian10
Contingency rules10
Exploring variability in lithic armature discard in the archaeological record10
Using BayesModelS to provide Bayesian- and phylogenetically-informed primate body mass predictions10
A comparative study of the endocasts of OH 5 and SK 1585: Implications for the paleoneurology of eastern and southern African Paranthropus10
Dental microwear of Neogene cercopithecoids from the Turkana Basin, Kenya9
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Stone selection by wild chimpanzees shares patterns with Oldowan hominins9
New remains of the Miocene great ape Anoiapithecus brevirostris from Abocador de Can Mata9
World variation in three-rooted lower second molars and implications for the hominin fossil record9
Structural properties of the Late Pleistocene Liujiang femoral diaphyses from southern China9
Mosaic habitats at Woranso-Mille (Ethiopia) during the Pliocene and implications for Australopithecus paleoecology and taxonomic diversity9
Geometric morphometric variability in the supraorbital and orbital region of Middle Pleistocene hominins: Implications for the taxonomy and evolution of later Homo9
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Early Pleistocene hominin teeth from Gongwangling of Lantian, Central China8
C4 plant food loss probably influenced Paranthropus boisei's extinction: A reply to Patterson et al.'s commentary on Quinn and Lepre (2021)8
Preliminary observations on the Levantine Aurignacian sequence of Manot Cave: Cultural affiliations and regional perspectives8
The Grotte du Bison Neandertals (Arcy-sur-Cure, France)8
Relative leg-to-arm skeletal strength proportions in orangutans by species and sex8
Comparing the Boxgrove and Atapuerca (Sima de los Huesos) human fossils: Do they represent distinct paleodemes?8
Feeding ecology of the last European colobine monkey, Dolichopithecus ruscinensis8
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Retrodeformation and functional anatomy of a cranial thoracic vertebra in Nacholapithecus kerioi8
Modern African ecosystems as landscape-scale analogues for reconstructing woody cover and early hominin environments8
Evidence for the smallest fossil Pongo in southern China7
Descriptive catalog of Homo naledi dental remains from the 2013 to 2015 excavations of the Dinaledi Chamber, site U.W. 101, within the Rising Star cave system, South Africa7
Fifty years of paleoanthropology in Journal of Human Evolution: Historical perspectives and future directions7
Revising the oldest Oldowan: Updated optimal linear estimation models and the impact of Nyayanga (Kenya)7
Paleoecological evidence for environmental specialization in Paranthropus boisei compared to early Homo7
Postcranial evidence does not support habitual bipedalism in Sahelanthropus tchadensis: A reply to Daver et al. (2022)7
JHE 50th Anniversary: The joys of technology7
A comparative study of the Early Pleistocene carnivore guild from Dmanisi (Georgia)7
Humanlike manual activities in Australopithecus7
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Evolutionary trends of the lateral foot in catarrhine primates: Contextualizing the fourth metatarsal of Australopithecus afarensis6
The endocast of the late Middle Paleolithic Manot 1 specimen, Western Galilee, Israel6
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Hypoconulid loss in cercopithecins: Functional and developmental considerations6
Covariation between the cranium and the cervical vertebrae in hominids6
New modern and Pleistocene fossil micromammal assemblages from Swartkrans, South Africa: Paleobiodiversity, taphonomic, and environmental context6
Investigating the co-occurrence of Neanderthals and modern humans in Belgium through direct radiocarbon dating of bone implements6
The effect of bi-iliac breadth on core body temperature6
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Sex estimation of the adult Neandertal Regourdou 1 (Montignac, France): Implications for sexing human fossil remains6
Additional analyses of stem catarrhine and hominoid dental morphology support Kapi ramnagarensis as a stem hylobatid6
Unique nasal turbinal morphology reveals Homunculus patagonicus functionally converged on modern platyrrhine olfactory sensitivity6
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A new chronological framework for Chuandong Cave and its implications for the appearance of modern humans in southern China6
Estimation of the upper diaphragm in KNM-WT 15000 (Homo erectus s.l.) and Kebara 2 (Homo neanderthalensis) using a Homo sapiens model6
Corrigendum to “Body mass estimation from footprint size in hominins” [Journal of Human Evolution 156 (2021)102997]6
No scientific evidence that Homo naledi buried their dead and produced rock art6
New femoral remains of Nacholapithecus kerioi: Implications for intraspecific variation and Miocene hominoid evolution6
Evaluating landscape knowledge and lithic resource selection at the French Middle Paleolithic site of the Bau de l'Aubesier6
Corrigendum to “Femur associated with the Deep Skull from the West Mouth of the Niah Caves (Sarawak, Malaysia)” [Journal of Human Evolution 127 (2019) 133–148]5
Reappraisal of the chronology of Orgnac 3 Lower-to-Middle Paleolithic site (Ardèche, France), a regional key sequence for the Middle Pleistocene of southern France5
A West African Middle Stone Age site dated to the beginning of MIS 5: Archaeology, chronology, and paleoenvironment of the Ravin Blanc I (eastern Senegal)5
Variability in energy expenditure is much greater in males than females5
Site formation processes at Manot Cave, Israel: Interplay between strata accumulation in the occupation area and the talus5
JHE 50th anniversary: What does a journal owe its discipline?5
Aurignacian groups at Isturitz (France) adapted to a shifting environment upon their arrival in Western Europe ∼42,000 years ago5
Traces of dietary patterns in saliva of hominids: Profiling salivary amino acid fingerprints in great apes and humans5
Machine learning, bootstrapping, null models, and why we are still not 100% sure which bone surface modifications were made by crocodiles5
Hominin locomotion and evolution in the Late Miocene to Late Pliocene5
Morphological description and evolutionary significance of 300 ka hominin facial bones from Hualongdong, China5
Effects of hybridization on pelvic morphology: A macaque model5
New Oldowan locality Sare-Abururu (ca. 1.7 Ma) provides evidence of diverse hominin behaviors on the Homa Peninsula, Kenya5
Divergent otolithic systems in the inner ear of Paranthropus robustus and Australopithecus africanus5
A fresh look at an iconic human fossil: Virtual reconstruction of the KNM-WT 15000 cranium5
The Marine Isotope Stage 3 landscape around Manot Cave (Israel) and the food habits of anatomically modern humans: New insights from the anthracological record and stable carbon isotope analysis of wi5
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A new species of fossil guenon (Cercopithecini, Cercopithecidae) from the Early Pleistocene Lower Ngaloba Beds, Laetoli, Tanzania4
The Western European Acheulean: Reading variability at a regional scale4
Tracking behavioral persistence and innovations during the Middle Pleistocene in Western Europe. Shift in occupations between 700 and 450 ka at la Noira site (Centre, France)4
Biomechanical and taxonomic diversity in the Early Pleistocene in East Africa: Structural analysis of a recently discovered femur shaft from Olduvai Gorge (bed I)4
Phylogenetic analysis of Middle-Late Miocene apes4
Phylogeny and paleobiogeography of the enigmatic North American primate Ekgmowechashala illuminated by new fossils from Nebraska (USA) and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (China)4
A cranial injury from the earliest Gravettian at the Cro-Magnon rock shelter (Vézère Valley, Dordogne, southwest France)4
Subsistence behavior during the Initial Upper Paleolithic in Europe: Site use, dietary practice, and carnivore exploitation at Bacho Kiro Cave (Bulgaria)4
Domestic spaces as crucibles of Paleolithic culture: An archaeological perspective4
The game of models: Dietary reconstruction in human evolution4
Quantifying maxillary development in chimpanzees and humans: An analysis of prognathism and orthognathism at the morphological and microscopic scales4
New analyses of the Ardipithecus ramidus foot provide additional evidence of its African ape–like affinities: A reply to4
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Challenging the antiquity of the Cradle of Humankind, South Africa: Geochronological evidence restricts the age of Eurotomys bolti and Parapapio to less than 2.3 Ma at Waypoint 160, Bolt's Farm4
Total evidence phylogeny of platyrrhine primates and a comparison of undated and tip-dating approaches4
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Examining the relationship between pelvic shape and numbers of lumbar vertebrae in anthropoid primates4
Knuckle-walking in Sahelanthropus? Locomotor inferences from the ulnae of fossil hominins and other hominoids4
Persistent predators: Zooarchaeological evidence for specialized horse hunting at Schöningen 13II-44
Corrigendum to “New fossils of Australopithecus anamensis from Kanapoi, West Turkana, Kenya (2012–2015)” [Journal of Human Evolution 140 (2020) 102368]3
Morphological integration of the hominoid postcranium3
The relative limb size of Homo naledi3
Comparative anatomy of the carotid canal in the Miocene small-bodied catarrhine Pliobates cataloniae3
Comparing walking and running in persistence hunting3
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Evidence of habitual behavior from non-alimentary dental wear on deciduous teeth from the Middle and Upper Paleolithic Cantabrian region, Northern Spain3
Luminescence chronology for the Paleolithic site of Xinmiaozhuang Locality 1 (XMZ1) in the Nihewan Basin, northern China, and its paleoenvironmental and archaeological implications3
Evidence for the latest fossil Pongo in southern China3
Three-dimensional geometric morphometric analysis of the bony labyrinth of Xujiayao 63
Additional isolated hominin canine tooth from Kanapoi, Kenya3
Respect for males amid suppression of females: Selective use of aggression and fitness correlates in the male-dominated society of hamadryas baboons3
Early Pleistocene hominin subsistence behaviors in South Africa: Evidence from the hominin-bearing deposit of Cooper's D (Bloubank Valley, South Africa)3
Small mammals (Insectivora, Rodentia, Lagomorpha) from the Early Pleistocene hominin-bearing site of Dmanisi (Georgia)3
Diverse bone-calcium isotope compositions in Neandertals suggest different dietary strategies3
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Behavioral and phylogenetic correlates of limb length proportions in extant apes and monkeys: Implications for interpreting hominin fossils3
Introduction to special issue The Lower to Middle Paleolithic boundaries: Evolutionary threshold or continuum?3
Shanidar 3 ‘rings the bell’: Virtual ribcage reconstruction and its implications for understanding the Neanderthal bauplan3
JHE 50th Anniversary: The Early Years of JHE3
An assessment of the postcranial skeleton of the Paracolobus mutiwa (Primates: Colobinae) specimen KNM-WT 16827 from Lomekwi, West Turkana, Kenya3
Implications of outgroup selection in the phylogenetic inference of hominoids and fossil hominins3
Estimating ancestral ranges and biogeographical processes in early hominins3
Charles Kimberlin (Bob) Brain (1931–2023): Scientist of consequence, man of quality3
Tracking the emergence of an organized use of space: A direct comparison of the spatial patterning within Middle and Upper Paleolithic open-air sites3
Mapping Early Pleistocene environments and the availability of plant food as a potential driver of early Homo presence in the Guadix-Baza Basin (Spain)2
Flake tools in the European Lower Paleolithic: A case study from MIS 9 Britain2
Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) grouping patterns in an open and dry savanna landscape, Issa Valley, western Tanzania2
A new absolute date from Swartkrans Cave for the oldest occurrences of Paranthropus robustus and Oldowan stone tools in South Africa2
The dental remains from the Early Upper Paleolithic of Manot Cave, Israel2
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The influence of climate and population structure on East Asian skeletal morphology2
Ecological perspectives on technological diversity at Kanjera South2
Investigating the internal structure of the suprainiac fossa in Xuchang 22
Is imitational learning a driving factor for the population bias in human hand preference?2
Seasonality and Oldowan behavioral variability in East Africa2
Ecospaces of the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition: The archaeofaunal record of the Iberian Peninsula2
First record of Macaca (Cercopithecidae, Primates) in the Middle Pleistocene of Greece2
The anatomy of the hindlimb of Theropithecus brumpti (Cercopithecidae, Papionini): Morphofunctional implications2
Consumption of underground storage organs is associated with improved energetic status in a graminivorous primate2
Taxonomic attribution of the KNM-ER 1500 partial skeleton from the Burgi Member of the Koobi Fora Formation, Kenya2
Paleoecology, biochronology, and paleobiogeography of Eurasian Rhinocerotidae during the Early Pleistocene: The contribution of the fossil material from Dmanisi (Georgia, Southern Caucasus)2
Middle Pleistocene Pongo from Ganxian Cave in southern China with implications for understanding dental size evolution in orangutans2
Morphological integration in the hominid midfoot2
Cochlear morphology of Indonesian Homo erectus from Sangiran2
Introduction to special issue “Humans in transition: The occupation of Western Europe, 600–400 Ka”2
Assessing the status of the KNM-ER 42700 fossil using Homo erectus neurocranial development2
Comparative description and taxonomic affinity of 3.7-million-year-old hominin mandibles from Woranso-Mille (Ethiopia)2
Facial morphologies of Middle Pleistocene Europe: Morphological mosaicism and the evolution of Homo neanderthalensis2
The radial head of the Middle Miocene ape Nacholapithecus kerioi: Morphometric affinities, locomotor inferences, and implications for the evolution of the hominoid humeroradial joint2
The last glacial cycle of the southern Levant: Paleoenvironment and chronology of modern humans2
Reconstructing Neanderthal diet: The case for carbohydrates2
William Howard Kimbel (1954–2022)2
On fossil recovery potential in the Australopithecus anamensis–Australopithecus afarensis lineage: A reply to2
Reassessment of the human mandible from Banyoles (Girona, Spain)2
Cultural mosaics, social structure, and identity: The Acheulean threshold in Europe2
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Estimates of absolute crown strength and bite force in the lower postcanine dentition of Gigantopithecus blacki2
Functional morphological integration related to feeding biomechanics in the hominine skull2
Geometric morphometric analysis of the bony labyrinth of the Sima de los Huesos hominins2
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