| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The Expensive-Tissue Hypothesis: The Brain and the Digestive System in Human and Primate Evolution | Current Anthropology | 1995 | 2,095 |
| 2 | An Anthropology of Structural Violence | Current Anthropology | 2004 | 1,308 |
| 3 | The Osteological Paradox: Problems of Inferring Prehistoric Health from Skeletal Samples [and Comments and Reply] | Current Anthropology | 1992 | 1,105 |
| 4 | Cultural Constraints on Grammar and Cognition in Pirahã | Current Anthropology | 2005 | 1,097 |
| 5 | Primate Communication and the Gestural Origin of Language [and Comments and Reply] | Current Anthropology | 1973 | 1,000 |
| 6 | After Nature | Current Anthropology | 1999 | 873 |
| 7 | Cultural Citizenship as Subject-Making: Immigrants Negotiate Racial and Cultural Boundaries in the United States [and Comments and Reply] | Current Anthropology | 1996 | 827 |
| 8 | A Dual-Processual Theory for the Evolution of Mesoamerican Civilization | Current Anthropology | 1996 | 818 |
| 9 | The Primacy of the Ethical: Propositions for a Militant Anthropology | Current Anthropology | 1995 | 802 |
| 10 | Fission‐Fusion Dynamics | Current Anthropology | 2008 | 796 |
| 11 | The Anthropology of the State in the Age of Globalization | Current Anthropology | 2001 | 770 |
| 12 | Papers in Honor of Melville J. Herskovits: Gossip and Scandal | Current Anthropology | 1963 | 723 |
| 13 | “Animism” Revisited | Current Anthropology | 1999 | 709 |
| 14 | Signaling Theory, Strategic Interaction, and Symbolic Capital | Current Anthropology | 2005 | 708 |
| 15 | Talking Culture: New Boundaries, New Rhetorics of Exclusion in Europe | Current Anthropology | 1995 | 690 |
| 16 | The Origin of Modern Human Behavior | Current Anthropology | 2003 | 689 |
| 17 | Two Key Steps in the Evolution of Human Cooperation | Current Anthropology | 2012 | 664 |
| 18 | Death, Hope, and Sex: Life-History Theory and the Development of Reproductive Strategies [and Comments and Reply] | Current Anthropology | 1993 | 662 |
| 19 | The Raw and the Stolen | Current Anthropology | 1999 | 656 |
| 20 | Measuring the World | Current Anthropology | 2011 | 631 |
| 21 | Hadza Women's Time Allocation, Offspring Provisioning, and the Evolution of Long Postmenopausal Life Spans | Current Anthropology | 1997 | 627 |
| 22 | The Global Traffic in Human Organs | Current Anthropology | 2000 | 614 |
| 23 | Food Sharing Among Ache Foragers: Tests of Explanatory Hypotheses [and Comments and Reply] | Current Anthropology | 1985 | 611 |
| 24 | Ideology, Materialization, and Power Strategies | Current Anthropology | 1996 | 590 |
| 25 | Egalitarian Behavior and Reverse Dominance Hierarchy [and Comments and Reply] | Current Anthropology | 1993 | 583 |
| 26 | Environmentality | Current Anthropology | 2005 | 567 |
| 27 | The Genetic Structure of Ancient Human Populations | Current Anthropology | 1993 | 562 |
| 28 | The Tortoise and the Hare | Current Anthropology | 2000 | 549 |
| 29 | My Brother's Keeper: Child and Sibling Caretaking [and Comments and Reply] | Current Anthropology | 1977 | 547 |
| 30 | Systematic Butchery by Plio/Pleistocene Hominids at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania [and Comments and Reply] | Current Anthropology | 1986 | 542 |
| 31 | Neocortex Size, Group Size, and the Evolution of Language | Current Anthropology | 1993 | 542 |
| 32 | Continuity Thinking and the Problem of Christian Culture | Current Anthropology | 2007 | 542 |
| 33 | Shared Norms and the Evolution of Ethnic Markers | Current Anthropology | 2003 | 541 |
| 34 | Violence and Sociality in Human Evolution [and Comments and Replies] | Current Anthropology | 1991 | 532 |
| 35 | Proxemics [and Comments and Replies] | Current Anthropology | 1968 | 526 |
| 36 | The Return of the Native | Current Anthropology | 2003 | 521 |
| 37 | The Development of Indigenous Knowledge | Current Anthropology | 1998 | 507 |
| 38 | The Signs of All Times: Entoptic Phenomena in Upper Palaeolithic Art [and Comments and Reply] | Current Anthropology | 1988 | 486 |
| 39 | The Settlement of the Americas: A Comparison of the Linguistic, Dental, and Genetic Evidence [and Comments and Reply] | Current Anthropology | 1986 | 483 |
| 40 | Intergroup Aggression in Chimpanzees and Humans [and Comments and Replies] | Current Anthropology | 1991 | 481 |
| 41 | Religious Ritual and Cooperation: Testing for a Relationship on Israeli Religious and Secular Kibbutzim | Current Anthropology | 2003 | 473 |
| 42 | The Significance of Food Storage Among Hunter-Gatherers: Residence Patterns, Population Densities, and Social Inequalities [and Comments and Reply] | Current Anthropology | 1982 | 456 |
| 43 | Staple Finance, Wealth Finance, and Storage in the Inka Political Economy [and Comments and Reply] | Current Anthropology | 1985 | 454 |
| 44 | “Neoliberal Agency” | Current Anthropology | 2011 | 454 |
| 45 | The Ties That Bind Us | Current Anthropology | 2014 | 454 |
| 46 | Neanderthal Acculturation in Western Europe? A Critical Review of the Evidence and Its Interpretation | Current Anthropology | 1998 | 446 |
| 47 | Causes of Conjugal Dissolution: A Cross-cultural Study | Current Anthropology | 1989 | 437 |
| 48 | Can Group-Functional Behaviors Evolve by Cultural Group Selection?: An Empirical Test | Current Anthropology | 1995 | 426 |
| 49 | The Anatomy of Envy: A Study in Symbolic Behavior [and Comments and Reply] | Current Anthropology | 1972 | 416 |
| 50 | Are Ethnic Groups Biological “Species” to the Human Brain? | Current Anthropology | 2001 | 416 |
