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 2021-05-01 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
Aspects of molar form and dietary proclivities of African colobines26
Morphological disparity and evolutionary transformations in the primate hyoid apparatus26
One journal to bring them all, and in the fossils bind them24
Sedimentary ancient DNA metabarcoding as a tool for assessing prehistoric plant use at the Upper Paleolithic cave site Aghitu-3, Armenia24
Acetabular orientation, pelvic shape, and the evolution of hominin bipedality22
Molar enamel–dentine junction shape of Pliobates cataloniae and other Iberian pliopithecoids22
Femoral neck cortical bone distribution in Nacholapithecus from the Middle Miocene of Kenya22
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
JHE 50th anniversary: Generosity21
Eastern African environmental variation and its role in the evolution and cultural change of Homo over the last 1 million years20
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
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
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
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Distinguishing primate taxa with enamel incremental variables17
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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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Unexpected variation of human molar size patterns12
Ulnar morphology of Pliobates cataloniae (Pliopithecoidea: Crouzeliidae): Insights into catarrhine locomotor diversity and forelimb evolution12
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
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
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
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
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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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Stone selection by wild chimpanzees shares patterns with Oldowan hominins9
Dental microwear of Neogene cercopithecoids from the Turkana Basin, Kenya9
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
New remains of the Miocene great ape Anoiapithecus brevirostris from Abocador de Can Mata9
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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
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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