Journal of Human Evolution

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Human Evolution is 8. 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Reconstructing Neanderthal diet: The case for carbohydrates44
Comparative description and taxonomic affinity of 3.7-million-year-old hominin mandibles from Woranso-Mille (Ethiopia)38
An ape partial postcranial skeleton (KNM-NP 64631) from the Middle Miocene of Napudet, northern Kenya34
Initial Upper Paleolithic bone technology and personal ornaments at Bacho Kiro Cave (Bulgaria)33
Life and death at Dmanisi, Georgia: Taphonomic signals from the fossil mammals30
The Western European Acheulean: Reading variability at a regional scale26
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Paleoenvironments represented by the sediments of the Early Pliocene Mursi Formation, Omo Valley, Ethiopia23
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The foot of the human–chimpanzee last common ancestor was not African ape-like: A response to Prang (2019)22
JHE 50th anniversary: What does a journal owe its discipline?22
One journal to bring them all, and in the fossils bind them21
The 50th anniversary of JHE21
Calcar femorale variation in extant and fossil hominids: Implications for identifying bipedal locomotion in fossil hominins21
William Howard Kimbel (1954–2022)21
Pliocene hominins from East Turkana were associated with mesic environments in a semiarid basin20
Three-dimensional geometric morphometric study of the Xuchang 2 cranium20
On the age of Ain Hanech Oldowan locality (Algeria): First numerical dating results20
Hominin nomenclature and the importance of information systems for managing complexity in paleoanthropology20
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Reconstructing the provenance of the hominin fossils from Trinil (Java, Indonesia) through an integrated analysis of the historical and recent excavations19
A cranial injury from the earliest Gravettian at the Cro-Magnon rock shelter (Vézère Valley, Dordogne, southwest France)19
Ecospaces of the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition: The archaeofaunal record of the Iberian Peninsula18
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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 Farm17
Biomechanical correlates of zygomaxillary-surface shape in papionin primates and the effects of hard-object feeding on mangabey facial form16
Subsistence behavior during the Initial Upper Paleolithic in Europe: Site use, dietary practice, and carnivore exploitation at Bacho Kiro Cave (Bulgaria)16
The influence of climate and population structure on East Asian skeletal morphology16
Sedimentary ancient DNA metabarcoding as a tool for assessing prehistoric plant use at the Upper Paleolithic cave site Aghitu-3, Armenia16
Morphological variation of the maxilla in modern humans and African apes16
A new species of fossil guenon (Cercopithecini, Cercopithecidae) from the Early Pleistocene Lower Ngaloba Beds, Laetoli, Tanzania16
Description and taxonomic assessment of fossil Cercopithecidae from the Pliocene Galili Formation (Ethiopia)15
Morphological integration in the hominid midfoot15
A fistful of fossils: The rise and fall of the Orce Man and the politics of paleoanthropological science15
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Domestic spaces as crucibles of Paleolithic culture: An archaeological perspective15
Geometric morphometric analysis of the bony labyrinth of the Sima de los Huesos hominins15
Craniomandibular variation in the endemic Hispaniolan primate, Antillothrix bernensis14
The Dmanisi Equus: Systematics, biogeography, and paleoecology14
Zoogeographic significance of Dmanisi large mammal assemblage14
A marine isotope stage 13 Acheulian sequence from the Amanzi Springs Area 2 Deep Sounding excavation, Eastern Cape, South Africa14
New records of early Paleocene (earliest Torrejonian) plesiadapiforms from northeastern Montana, USA, provide a window into the diversification of stem primates14
A review of Theropithecus oswaldi with the proposal of a new subspecies14
Morphological affinities of a fossil ulna (KNM-WS 65401) from Buluk, Kenya14
Aspects of molar form and dietary proclivities of African colobines14
Aridity, availability of drinking water and freshwater foods, and hominin and archeological sites during the Late Pliocene–Early Pleistocene in the western region of the Turkana Basin (Kenya): A revie13
New Pliocene hominin remains from the Leado Dido’a area of Woranso-Mille, Ethiopia13
Do rates of dental wear in extant African great apes inform the time of weaning?13
Early modern human dispersal into southwest Asia occurred in variable climates: a reply to Frumkin and Comay (2019)13
Morphological disparity and evolutionary transformations in the primate hyoid apparatus13
An updated chronology and paleoenvironmental background for the Paleolithic Loufangzi site, North China13
A reanalysis of strontium isotope ratios as indicators of dispersal in South African hominins12
Morphological description and evolutionary significance of 300 ka hominin facial bones from Hualongdong, China12
Unexpected variation of human molar size patterns12
The dental remains from the Early Upper Paleolithic of Manot Cave, Israel12
Site formation processes at Manot Cave, Israel: Interplay between strata accumulation in the occupation area and the talus12
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 wi12
The brain of Homo habilis: Three decades of paleoneurology12
A chimpanzee enamel-diet δ13C enrichment factor and a refined enamel sampling strategy: Implications for dietary reconstructions12
Trophic ecology of a Late Pleistocene early modern human from tropical Southeast Asia inferred from zinc isotopes12
Early Upper Paleolithic human foot bones from Manot Cave, Israel12
A Late Middle Pleistocene human tooth from the Luonan Basin (Shaanxi, China)11
Total evidence phylogeny of platyrrhine primates and a comparison of undated and tip-dating approaches11
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]11
Paleoecology, biochronology, and paleobiogeography of Eurasian Rhinocerotidae during the Early Pleistocene: The contribution of the fossil material from Dmanisi (Georgia, Southern Caucasus)11
Modern human atlas ranges of motion and Neanderthal estimations11
Variation in ontogenetic trajectories of limb dimensions in humans is attributable to both climatic effects and neutral evolution11
Hominin turnover at Laetoli is associated with vegetation change: Multiproxy evidence from the large herbivore community11
Euarchontans from Fantasia, an upland middle Eocene locality at the western margin of the Bighorn Basin11
Femoral neck cortical bone distribution in Nacholapithecus from the Middle Miocene of Kenya10
A reanalysis of the Taung endocranial surface: Comparison with large samples of living hominids10
Acetabular orientation, pelvic shape, and the evolution of hominin bipedality10
Middle Pleistocene Pongo from Ganxian Cave in southern China with implications for understanding dental size evolution in orangutans10
Reassessment of the human mandible from Banyoles (Girona, Spain)10
Investigating foundations for hominin fire exploitation: Savanna-dwelling chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in fire-altered landscapes10
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Enamel thickness in the deciduous postcanine dentition of fossil and extant Pongo10
The human remains of Final Gravettian age from the Reclau Viver and Mollet III caves (Serinyà, NE Iberian Peninsula)10
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 Evolution10
Virtual reconstruction and geometric morphometric analysis of the Kocabaş hominin fossil from Turkey: Implications for taxonomy and evolutionary significance10
Variations by degrees: Western European paleoenvironmental fluctuations across MIS 13–1110
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Systematics of Miocene apes: State of the art of a neverending controversy9
Early evidence for bear exploitation during MIS 9 from the site of Schöningen 12 (Germany)9
A new primate community from the earliest Oligocene of the Atlantic margin of Northwest Africa: Systematic, paleobiogeographic, and paleoenvironmental implications9
Relationship between interproximal and occlusal wear in Australopithecus africanus and Neanderthal molars9
Variation in enamel mechanical properties throughout the crown in catarrhine primates9
Dental topography of the Oligocene anthropoids Aegyptopithecus zeuxis and Apidium phiomense: Paleodietary insights from analysis of wear series9
The micromammal fauna of the southern Levant changed with the paleoclimate during the Paleolithic, while modern humans persisted: A counter-reply to Weissbrod and Weinstein-Evron (2020)9
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Phylogenetic analysis of Middle-Late Miocene apes9
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Naming Homo erectus: A review8
The taxonomic attribution of African hominin postcrania from the Miocene through the Pleistocene: Associations and assumptions8
Biomechanical and taxonomic diversity in the Early Pleistocene in East Africa: Structural analysis of a recently discovered femur shaft from Olduvai Gorge (bed I)8
Portable x-ray fluorescence spectroscopy geochemical sourcing of Miocene primate fossils from Kenya8
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Exploring the lack of articular ends at the Middle Pleistocene site of Qesem Cave, Israel8
Sex-biased sampling may influence Homo naledi tooth size variation8
On fossil recovery potential in the Australopithecus anamensis–Australopithecus afarensis lineage: A reply to8
Taxonomic attribution of the KNM-ER 1500 partial skeleton from the Burgi Member of the Koobi Fora Formation, Kenya8
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