OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Evolutionary Anthropology 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Expanding the evolutionary explanations for sex differences in the human skeleton	44
Large‐scale cooperation in small‐scale foraging societies	34
Primate conservation: Lessons learned in the last 20 years can guide future efforts	32
Resolving the “muddle in the middle”: The case for Homo bodoensis sp. nov.	30
The emergence and intensification of early hunter‐gatherer niche construction	30
The landscape of tooth shape: Over 20 years of dental topography in primates	28
Reconstructing prehistoric demography: What role for extant hunter‐gatherers?	19
Did Pleistocene Africans use the spearthrower‐and‐dart?	18
New horizons in reconstructing past human behavior: Introducing the “Tübingen University Validated Entheses‐based Reconstruction of Activity” method	17
Why understanding multiplex social network structuring processes will help us better understand the evolution of human behavior	17
Estimating origination times from the early hominin fossil record	17
Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in savanna landscapes	17
Leveling with Tinbergen: Four levels simplified to causes and consequences	15
Between a rock and a cold place: Neanderthal biocultural cold adaptations	15
Assessing the state of knowledge of contemporary climate change and primates	15
The ripples of modernity: How we can extend paleoanthropology with the extended evolutionary synthesis	14
Human behavioral ecology and niche construction	13
Operationalizing niche construction theory with stone tools	13
Issues of theory and method in the analysis of Paleolithic mortuary behavior: A view from Shanidar Cave	13
The evolutionary significance of human brown adipose tissue: Integrating the timescales of adaptation	13
Sepsis and the evolution of human increased sensitivity to lipopolysaccharide	13
Cooperation in large‐scale human societies—What, if anything, makes it unique, and how did it evolve?	12
Mobile containers in human cognitive evolution studies: Understudied and underrepresented	12
Plant wax biomarkers in human evolutionary studies	11
Ecosystem engineering in the Quaternary of the West Coast of South Africa	11

Whatisn'tsocial tolerance?The past, present, and possible future of an overused term in the field of primatology	10
Energetic and endurance constraints on great ape quadrupedalism and the benefits of hominin bipedalism	9
Homo sapiensorigins and evolution in the Kalahari Basin, southern Africa	9
Genes, culture, and the human niche: An overview	8
Inferring archaic introgression from hominin genetic data	8
Rocks and clocks revised: New promises and challenges in dating the primate tree of life	8
Underestimating Kanzi? Exploring Kanzi‐Oldowan comparisons in light of recent human stone tool replication	8
Metabolic changes in human brain evolution	8
Pathways to paternal care in primates	8
Synergies between the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease framework and multiple branches of evolutionary anthropology	7
Baldwin effects in early stone tools	7
The naming of Homo bodoensis by Roksandic and colleagues does not resolve issues surrounding Middle Pleistocene human evolution	6
The challenges of documenting coevolution and niche construction: The example of domestic spaces	6
Homo bodoensis and why it matters	6
What kind of hominin first left Africa?	6
Scanning the human genome for “signatures” of positive selection: Transformative opportunities and ethical obligations	6
Grit and consequence	6
Drivers of insect consumption across human populations	6
Muddying the muddle in the middle even more	5
The nature of Nubian: Developing current global perspectives on Nubian Levallois technology and the Nubian complex	5
The sensory ecology of primate food perception, revisited	5
Pan‐Africanism vs. single‐origin of Homo sapiens: Putting the debate in the light of evolutionary biology	5
Subjective selection and the evolution of complex culture	5
The extended evolutionary synthesis and human origins: Archaeological perspectives	4
Hominins likely occupied northern Europe before one million years ago	4
A process‐based approach to hominin taxonomy provides new perspectives on hominin speciation	4
Brutish Neanderthals: History of a merciless characterization	4
Preserving quantifiable ethnographic records of disappearing human lifeways	4
The importance of open access software in the analysis of bone histology in biological anthropology	3
Biocultural perspectives of infectious diseases and demographic evolution: Tuberculosis and its comorbidities through history	3
Do we need to reclassify the social systems of gregarious apes?	3
Birth of Homo erectus	3
Reticulate evolution underlies synergistic trait formation in human communities	3
Anthropological genetic insights on Caribbean population history	3
Parallel evolution in human populations: A biocultural perspective	3
Digitization of the Nissen–Riesen chimpanzee radiological growth series	3
Human consumption of large herbivore digesta and its implications for foraging theory	3