Journal of Human Evolution

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Human Evolution is 3. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
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The revolution that still isn't: The origins of behavioral complexity in Homo sapiens38
The hunters or the hunters: Human and hyena prey choice divergence in the Late Pleistocene Levant33
A new absolute date from Swartkrans Cave for the oldest occurrences of Paranthropus robustus and Oldowan stone tools in South Africa33
Nature and relationships of Sahelanthropus tchadensis33
Eastern African environmental variation and its role in the evolution and cultural change of Homo over the last 1 million years30
Meat eating by nonhuman primates: A review and synthesis30
Bone tools from Beds II–IV, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, and implications for the origins and evolution of bone technology27
Trophic ecology of a Late Pleistocene early modern human from tropical Southeast Asia inferred from zinc isotopes27
Cultural mosaics, social structure, and identity: The Acheulean threshold in Europe25
Dietary evidence from Central Asian Neanderthals: A combined isotope and plant microremains approach at Chagyrskaya Cave (Altai, Russia)25
Reconstructing Neanderthal diet: The case for carbohydrates22
The Middle to Later Stone Age transition at Panga ya Saidi, in the tropical coastal forest of eastern Africa20
Coping with arid environments: A critical threshold for human expansion in Europe at the Marine Isotope Stage 12/11 transition? The case of the Iberian Peninsula20
The last glacial cycle of the southern Levant: Paleoenvironment and chronology of modern humans20
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)20
Phylogenetic analysis of Middle-Late Miocene apes20
The Fauresmith of South Africa: A new assemblage from Canteen Kopje and significance of the technology in human and cultural evolution19
Quantifying differences in hominin flaking technologies with 3D shape analysis19
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)19
Early Upper Paleolithic subsistence in the Levant: Zooarchaeology of the Ahmarian–Aurignacian sequence at Manot Cave, Israel19
Subsistence behavior during the Initial Upper Paleolithic in Europe: Site use, dietary practice, and carnivore exploitation at Bacho Kiro Cave (Bulgaria)18
Personal ornaments from Hayonim and Manot caves (Israel) hint at symbolic ties between the Levantine and the European Aurignacian18
The DNH 7 skull of Australopithecus robustus from Drimolen (Main Quarry), South Africa18
The pectoral girdle of StW 573 (‘Little Foot’) and its implications for shoulder evolution in the Hominina18
Mapping Early Pleistocene environments and the availability of plant food as a potential driver of early Homo presence in the Guadix-Baza Basin (Spain)18
Statistical inference of earlier origins for the first flaked stone technologies17
Quantifying gaze conspicuousness: Are humans distinct from chimpanzees and bonobos?17
Zoogeographic significance of Dmanisi large mammal assemblage17
Isotopic calcium biogeochemistry of MIS 5 fossil vertebrate bones: application to the study of the dietary reconstruction of Regourdou 1 Neandertal fossil17
A technotypological analysis of the Ahmarian and Levantine Aurignacian assemblages from Manot Cave (area C) and the interrelation with site formation processes17
Before the Acheulean: The emergence of bifacial shaping at Kokiselei 6 (1.8 Ma), West Turkana, Kenya17
Bayesian luminescence dating at Ghār-e Boof, Iran, provides a new chronology for Middle and Upper Paleolithic in the southern Zagros17
Initial Upper Paleolithic bone technology and personal ornaments at Bacho Kiro Cave (Bulgaria)17
Unique foot posture in Neanderthals reflects their body mass and high mechanical stress16
The Dmanisi Equus: Systematics, biogeography, and paleoecology16
Olduvai's oldest Oldowan16
Evolution of cranial capacity revisited: A view from the late Middle Pleistocene cranium from Xujiayao, China15
Paleoecology, biochronology, and paleobiogeography of Eurasian Rhinocerotidae during the Early Pleistocene: The contribution of the fossil material from Dmanisi (Georgia, Southern Caucasus)15
Could woodworking have driven lithic tool selection?15
Zhoukoudian Upper Cave personal ornaments and ochre: Rediscovery and reevaluation14
A primate model for the origin of flake technology14
Further analyses of the structural organization of Homo luzonensis teeth: Evolutionary implications14
Estimating the population variance, standard deviation, and coefficient of variation: Sample size and accuracy14
Ecological perspectives on technological diversity at Kanjera South14
Early anthropogenic use of hematite on Aurignacian ivory personal ornaments from Hohle Fels and Vogelherd caves, Germany14
Climatic and environmental conditions in the Western Galilee, during Late Middle and Upper Paleolithic periods, based on speleothems from Manot Cave, Israel14
How did modern morphology evolve in the human mandible? The relationship between static adult allometry and mandibular variability in Homo sapiens14
Chipping and wear patterns in extant primate and fossil hominin molars: ‘Functional’ cusps are associated with extensive wear but low levels of fracture14
Variability in energy expenditure is much greater in males than females14
Seasonality and Oldowan behavioral variability in East Africa14
Multi-isotope zooarchaeological investigations at Abri du Maras: The paleoecological and paleoenvironmental context of Neanderthal subsistence strategies in the Rhône Valley during MIS 314
Mosaic habitats at Woranso-Mille (Ethiopia) during the Pliocene and implications for Australopithecus paleoecology and taxonomic diversity14
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 wi13
Evolution of Homo in the Middle and Late Pleistocene13
Early Pleistocene hominin teeth from Meipu, southern China13
Modern human teeth unearthed from below the ∼128,000-year-old level at Punung, Java: A case highlighting the problem of recent intrusion in cave sediments13
Complexity and sophistication of Early Middle Paleolithic flint tools revealed through use-wear analysis of tools from Misliya Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel13
Connections between the Levant and the Balkans in the late Middle Pleistocene: Archaeological findings from Velika and Mala Balanica Caves (Serbia)13
Genetic correlations in the rhesus macaque dentition13
Shivering in the Pleistocene. Human adaptations to cold exposure in Western Europe from MIS 14 to MIS 1112
The Pan social brain: An evolutionary history of neurochemical receptor genes and their potential impact on sociocognitive differences12
Foot anatomy, walking energetics, and the evolution of human bipedalism12
Hominin diversity in East Asia during the Middle Pleistocene: A premolar endostructural perspective12
Hominin locomotion and evolution in the Late Miocene to Late Pliocene12
Adaptations for bipedal walking: Musculoskeletal structure and three-dimensional joint mechanics of humans and bipedal chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)12
Calcaneal shape variation in humans, nonhuman primates, and early hominins12
Domestic spaces as crucibles of Paleolithic culture: An archaeological perspective12
Two Late Pleistocene human femora from Trinil, Indonesia: Implications for body size and behavior in Southeast Asia12
Machine learning, bootstrapping, null models, and why we are still not 100% sure which bone surface modifications were made by crocodiles12
Morphological description and evolutionary significance of 300 ka hominin facial bones from Hualongdong, China12
A comparative study of the Early Pleistocene carnivore guild from Dmanisi (Georgia)11
Systematics of Miocene apes: State of the art of a neverending controversy11
A detailed analysis of the spatial distribution of Schöningen 13II-4 ‘Spear Horizon’ faunal remains11
Macaca ulna from new excavations at the Notarchirico Acheulean site (Middle Pleistocene, Venosa, southern Italy)11
The taxonomic attribution of African hominin postcrania from the Miocene through the Pleistocene: Associations and assumptions11
Preliminary observations on the Levantine Aurignacian sequence of Manot Cave: Cultural affiliations and regional perspectives11
A revised AMS and tephra chronology for the Late Middle to Early Upper Paleolithic occupations of Ortvale Klde, Republic of Georgia11
Predictive modelling in paleoenvironmental reconstruction: The micromammals of Manot Cave, Israel11
Dating the last Middle Palaeolithic of the Crimean Peninsula: New hydroxyproline AMS dates from the site of Kabazi II10
Morphological and morphometric analyses of a late Middle Pleistocene hominin mandible from Hualongdong, China10
New Pliocene hominin remains from the Leado Dido’a area of Woranso-Mille, Ethiopia10
Early Upper Paleolithic human foot bones from Manot Cave, Israel10
A revised (earliest Vallesian) age for the hominoid-bearing locality of Can Mata 1 based on new magnetostratigraphic and biostratigraphic data from Abocador de Can Mata (Vallès-Penedès Basin, NE Iberi10
Effects of hybridization on pelvic morphology: A macaque model10
Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) grouping patterns in an open and dry savanna landscape, Issa Valley, western Tanzania10
The brain of Homo habilis: Three decades of paleoneurology10
Evolutionary trend in dental size in fossil orangutans from the Pleistocene of Chongzuo, Guangxi, southern China10
Rodents as indicators of the climatic conditions during the Middle Pleistocene in the southwestern Mediterranean region: implications for the environment in which hominins lived10
Relative abundance of grazing and browsing herbivores is not a direct reflection of vegetation structure: Implications for hominin paleoenvironmental reconstruction10
Early evidence for bear exploitation during MIS 9 from the site of Schöningen 12 (Germany)10
Total evidence phylogeny of platyrrhine primates and a comparison of undated and tip-dating approaches10
The morphology of the Late Pleistocene hominin remains from the site of La Cotte de St Brelade, Jersey (Channel Islands)10
Early Neanderthals in contact: The Chibanian (Middle Pleistocene) hominin dentition from Velika Balanica Cave, Southern Serbia10
The environments of Australopithecus anamensis at Allia Bay, Kenya: A multiproxy analysis of early Pliocene Bovidae9
Karst terrain in the western upper Galilee, Israel: Speleogenesis, hydrogeology and human preference of Manot Cave9
Challenges and perspectives on functional interpretations of australopith postcrania and the reconstruction of hominin locomotion9
The dental remains from the Early Upper Paleolithic of Manot Cave, Israel9
Reappraisal of the chronology of Orgnac 3 Lower-to-Middle Paleolithic site (Ardèche, France), a regional key sequence for the Middle Pleistocene of southern France9
New macaque fossil remains from Morocco9
Early ontogeny of humeral trabecular bone in Neandertals and recent modern humans9
Acheulean variability in Western Europe: The case of Menez-Dregan I (Plouhinec, Finistère, France)9
A comparative analysis of the vestibular apparatus in Epipliopithecus vindobonensis: Phylogenetic implications9
Sedimentary ancient DNA metabarcoding as a tool for assessing prehistoric plant use at the Upper Paleolithic cave site Aghitu-3, Armenia9
Static allometry of a small-bodied omnivore: body size and limb scaling of an island fox and inferences for Homo floresiensis8
New paleoecological inferences based on the Early Pleistocene amphibian and reptile assemblage from Dmanisi (Georgia, Lesser Caucasus)8
Dental chipping supports lack of hard-object feeding in Paranthropus boisei8
Body mass estimation from footprint size in hominins8
The Western European Acheulean: Reading variability at a regional scale8
Trabecular organization of the proximal femur in Paranthropus robustus: Implications for the assessment of its hip joint loading conditions8
First record of Macaca (Cercopithecidae, Primates) in the Middle Pleistocene of Greece8
A chimpanzee enamel-diet δ13C enrichment factor and a refined enamel sampling strategy: Implications for dietary reconstructions8
Evidence for the latest fossil Pongo in southern China7
Comparing the Boxgrove and Atapuerca (Sima de los Huesos) human fossils: Do they represent distinct paleodemes?7
Exploring variability in lithic armature discard in the archaeological record7
Site formation processes at Manot Cave, Israel: Interplay between strata accumulation in the occupation area and the talus7
Covariation between the cranium and the cervical vertebrae in hominids7
Making meaning from fragmentary fossils: Early Homo in the Early to early Middle Pleistocene7
Evidence of habitual behavior from non-alimentary dental wear on deciduous teeth from the Middle and Upper Paleolithic Cantabrian region, Northern Spain7
The evolution of the adolescent growth spurt: Urinary biomarkers of bone turnover in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)7
An updated analysis of hominin phylogeny with an emphasis on re-evaluating the phylogenetic relationships of Australopithecus sediba7
An ancient cranium from Dmanisi: Evidence for interpersonal violence, disease, and possible predation by carnivores on Early Pleistocene Homo7
A nonanalog Pliocene ungulate community at Laetoli with implications for the paleoecology of Australopithecus afarensis7
Morphological integration and evolutionary potential of the primate shoulder: Variation among taxa and implications for genetic covariances with the basicranium, pelvis, and arm7
Knuckle-walking in Sahelanthropus? Locomotor inferences from the ulnae of fossil hominins and other hominoids7
Life and death at Dmanisi, Georgia: Taphonomic signals from the fossil mammals7
Small body size phenotypes among Middle and Later Stone Age Southern Africans7
First 40Ar/39Ar analyses of Australasian tektites in close association with bifacially worked artifacts at Nalai site in Bose Basin, South China: The question of the early Chinese Acheulean7
Paranthropus robustus tooth chipping patterns do not support regular hard food mastication6
Reconstruction and analysis of the DAN5/P1 and BSN12/P1 Gona Early Pleistocene Homo fossils6
Examination of magnitudes of integration in the catarrhine vertebral column6
Flake tools in the European Lower Paleolithic: A case study from MIS 9 Britain6
A comprehensive survey of Retzius periodicities in fossil hominins and great apes6
Virtual reconstruction of the Kebara 2 Neanderthal pelvis6
In search of modern humans and the Early Upper Paleolithic at Manot Cave: An overview6
Homo naledi pollical metacarpal shaft morphology is distinctive and intermediate between that of australopiths and other members of the genus Homo6
Feeding ecology of the last European colobine monkey, Dolichopithecus ruscinensis6
A refined chronology for the Middle and early Upper Paleolithic sequence of Riparo Mochi (Liguria, Italy)6
A marine isotope stage 13 Acheulian sequence from the Amanzi Springs Area 2 Deep Sounding excavation, Eastern Cape, South Africa6
Geometric morphometric analysis of the bony labyrinth of the Sima de los Huesos hominins6
Cochlear morphology of Indonesian Homo erectus from Sangiran6
Early Upper Paleolithic cultural variability in the Southern Levant: New evidence from Nahal Rahaf 2 Rockshelter, Judean Desert, Israel6
Stable isotope evidence of human diet in Mediterranean context during the Last Glacial Maximum6
Comparing walking and running in persistence hunting6
Dental microstructure records life history events: A histological study of mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx) from Gabon6
The influence of climate and population structure on East Asian skeletal morphology6
Early Pleistocene hominin subsistence behaviors in South Africa: Evidence from the hominin-bearing deposit of Cooper's D (Bloubank Valley, South Africa)5
New analyses of the Ardipithecus ramidus foot provide additional evidence of its African ape–like affinities: A reply to5
A review of Theropithecus oswaldi with the proposal of a new subspecies5
Premolar enamel thickness and distribution of a Miocene hominid Lufengpithecus hudienensis compared with Pleistocene and extant hominids5
Moving beyond the adaptationist paradigm for human evolution, and why it matters5
The Initial Upper Paleolithic of the Altai: New radiocarbon determinations for the Kara-Bom site5
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 Africa5
New dentognathic fossils of Noropithecus bulukensis (Primates, Victoriapithecidae) from the late Early Miocene of Buluk, Kenya5
A comparative study of the endocasts of OH 5 and SK 1585: Implications for the paleoneurology of eastern and southern African Paranthropus5
Calcar femorale variation in extant and fossil hominids: Implications for identifying bipedal locomotion in fossil hominins5
Direct cosmogenic nuclide isochron burial dating of early Acheulian stone tools at the T69 Complex (FLK West, Olduvai Bed II, Tanzania)5
No scientific evidence that Homo naledi buried their dead and produced rock art5
Respect for males amid suppression of females: Selective use of aggression and fitness correlates in the male-dominated society of hamadryas baboons5
The game of models: Dietary reconstruction in human evolution5
A proximal radius of Barberapithecus huerzeleri from Castell de Barberà: Implications for locomotor diversity among pliopithecoids5
Variation in enamel mechanical properties throughout the crown in catarrhine primates5
New femoral remains of Nacholapithecus kerioi: Implications for intraspecific variation and Miocene hominoid evolution5
Paleoecological evidence for environmental specialization in Paranthropus boisei compared to early Homo5
Linking primatology and archaeology: The transversality of stone percussive behaviors5
Late Acheulean occupations at Montagu Cave and the pattern of Middle Pleistocene behavioral change in Western Cape, southern Africa4
Variations by degrees: Western European paleoenvironmental fluctuations across MIS 13–114
Middle Pleistocene Pongo from Ganxian Cave in southern China with implications for understanding dental size evolution in orangutans4
Reassessment of the human mandible from Banyoles (Girona, Spain)4
Luminescence chronology for the Paleolithic site of Xinmiaozhuang Locality 1 (XMZ1) in the Nihewan Basin, northern China, and its paleoenvironmental and archaeological implications4
The earliest hylobatid from the Late Miocene of China4
Morphological integration of the hominoid postcranium4
Is ulna curvature in the StW 573 (‘Little Foot’) Australopithecus natural or pathological?4
White sclera is present in chimpanzees and other mammals4
Variation in Middle Stone Age mandibular molar enamel-dentine junction topography at Klasies River Main Site assessed by diffeomorphic surface matching4
Early modern human dispersal into southwest Asia occurred in variable climates: a reply to Frumkin and Comay (2019)4
Unexpected variation of human molar size patterns4
The endocast of the late Middle Paleolithic Manot 1 specimen, Western Galilee, Israel4
Jumping performance in tree squirrels: Insights into primate evolution4
Late Pleistocene partial femora from Maomaodong, southwestern China4
Fossil birds from Cooper's D aid in reconstructing the Early Pleistocene paleoenvironment in the Cradle of Humankind (Gauteng, South Africa)4
Dental topography of the Oligocene anthropoids Aegyptopithecus zeuxis and Apidium phiomense: Paleodietary insights from analysis of wear series4
Comparative anatomy and 3D geometric morphometrics of the El Sidrón atlases (C1)4
Morphological affinities of a fossil ulna (KNM-WS 65401) from Buluk, Kenya4
Morphological disparity and evolutionary transformations in the primate hyoid apparatus4
A reassessment of the distinctiveness of dryopithecine genera from the Iberian Miocene based on enamel-dentine junction geometric morphometric analyses4
The cost of cooking for foragers4
Comparative anatomy of the carotid canal in the Miocene small-bodied catarrhine Pliobates cataloniae4
Virtual endocast of late Paleocene Niptomomys (Microsyopidae, Euarchonta) and early primate brain evolution3
A Middle Pleistocene abrading tool from Tabun Cave, Israel: A search for the roots of abrading technology in human evolution3
New craniodental fossils of Paranthropus robustus from Kromdraai, South Africa (2014–2017 excavations)3
Comparative description and taxonomic affinity of 3.7-million-year-old hominin mandibles from Woranso-Mille (Ethiopia)3
Pliocene hominins from East Turkana were associated with mesic environments in a semiarid basin3
The foot of the human–chimpanzee last common ancestor was not African ape-like: A response to Prang (2019)3
Early Pleistocene stratigraphy, sedimentary environments, and formation contexts at Dmanisi in the Georgian Caucasus3
Modeling Oldowan tool transport from a primate perspective3
Revising the oldest Oldowan: Updated optimal linear estimation models and the impact of Nyayanga (Kenya)3
Trabecular bone properties in the ilium of the Middle Paleolithic/Middle Stone Age Border Cave 3 Homo sapiens infant and the onset of independent gait3
Morphological integration of the canine region within the hominine alveolar arch3
Using BayesModelS to provide Bayesian- and phylogenetically-informed primate body mass predictions3
A Late Middle Pleistocene human tooth from the Luonan Basin (Shaanxi, China)3
A new species of fossil guenon (Cercopithecini, Cercopithecidae) from the Early Pleistocene Lower Ngaloba Beds, Laetoli, Tanzania3
Morphological integration in the hominid midfoot3
Evaluating landscape knowledge and lithic resource selection at the French Middle Paleolithic site of the Bau de l'Aubesier3
Investigating the co-occurrence of Neanderthals and modern humans in Belgium through direct radiocarbon dating of bone implements3
First presence of Macaca sylvanus at the late Early Pleistocene of Barranc de la Boella (La Mina locality, Francolí Basin, NE Iberia)3
A new parapithecine (Primates: Anthropoidea) from the early Oligocene of Libya supports parallel evolution of large body size among parapithecids3
Did vegetation change drive the extinction of Paranthropus boisei?3
Relationship between interproximal and occlusal wear in Australopithecus africanus and Neanderthal molars3
Reconstructing the provenance of the hominin fossils from Trinil (Java, Indonesia) through an integrated analysis of the historical and recent excavations3
The role of developmental rate, body size, and positional behavior in the evolution of covariation and evolvability in the cranium of strepsirrhines and catarrhines3
Variation in ontogenetic trajectories of limb dimensions in humans is attributable to both climatic effects and neutral evolution3
Celebrating 50 years of the Journal of Human Evolution3
A new chronological framework for Chuandong Cave and its implications for the appearance of modern humans in southern China3
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