| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The causes of land-use and land-cover change: moving beyond the myths | Global Environmental Change | 2001 | 2,639 |
| 2 | Coevolution of neocortical size, group size and language in humans | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | 1993 | 2,110 |
| 3 | Neocortex size as a constraint on group size in primates | Journal of Human Evolution | 1992 | 1,831 |
| 4 | Who keeps children alive? A review of the effects of kin on child survival | Evolution and Human Behavior | 2008 | 848 |
| 5 | The Human Genus | Science | 1999 | 809 |
| 6 | A genomic history of Aboriginal Australia | Nature | 2016 | 439 |
| 7 | Global climate change, war, and population decline in recent human history | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2007 | 408 |
| 8 | Dominance rank and mating success in male primates | Animal Behaviour | 1991 | 403 |
| 9 | The earliest modern humans outside Africa | Science | 2018 | 373 |
| 10 | Time: a hidden constraint on the behavioural ecology of baboons | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 1992 | 372 |
| 11 | Genomic analyses inform on migration events during the peopling of Eurasia | Nature | 2016 | 360 |
| 12 | Admixture in Latin America: Geographic Structure, Phenotypic Diversity and Self-Perception of Ancestry Based on 7,342 Individuals | PLoS Genetics | 2014 | 350 |
| 13 | A recent bottleneck of Y chromosome diversity coincides with a global change in culture | Genome Research | 2015 | 348 |
| 14 | The effects of kin on child mortality in rural gambia | Demography | 2002 | 296 |
| 15 | Maternal grandmothers improve nutritional status and survival of children in rural Gambia | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2000 | 291 |
| 16 | A phylogenetic approach to cultural evolution | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2005 | 288 |
| 17 | The macroevolutionary consequences of phenotypic integration: from development to deep time | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2014 | 274 |
| 18 | COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy is associated with beliefs on the origin of the novel coronavirus in the UK and Turkey | Psychological Medicine | 2022 | 268 |
| 19 | Extending GIS-based visual analysis: the concept of visualscapes | International Journal of Geographical Information Science | 2003 | 265 |
| 20 | Fossils, feet and the evolution of human bipedal locomotion | Journal of Anatomy | 2004 | 257 |
| 21 | Evolutionary ecology of human life history | Animal Behaviour | 2000 | 255 |
| 22 | The Evolution of Monogamy in Large Primates: a New Hypothesis and Some Crucial Tests | Behaviour | 1990 | 247 |
| 23 | Energetic consequences of being aHomo erectus female | American Journal of Human Biology | 2002 | 241 |
| 24 | The value of bushmeat and other wild foods to rural households living in extreme poverty in Democratic Republic of Congo | Biological Conservation | 2004 | 240 |
| 25 | Male infanticide leads to social monogamy in primates | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2013 | 235 |
| 26 | Neocortex size and group size in primates: a test of the hypothesis | Journal of Human Evolution | 1995 | 232 |
| 27 | Introduction: Ethnographies of Historicity | History and Anthropology | 2005 | 232 |
| 28 | Climate Change and War Frequency in Eastern China over the Last Millennium | Human Ecology | 2007 | 224 |
| 29 | Neandertals made the first specialized bone tools in Europe | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2013 | 217 |
| 30 | How reliable are human phylogenetic hypotheses? | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2000 | 214 |
| 31 | The cultural wealth of nations | Nature | 2004 | 208 |
| 32 | Dating Primate Divergences through an Integrated Analysis of Palaeontological and Molecular Data | Systematic Biology | 2011 | 195 |
| 33 | Bantu language trees reflect the spread of farming across sub-Saharan Africa: a maximum-parsimony analysis | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2002 | 194 |
| 34 | Spread of cattle led to the loss of matrilineal descent in Africa: a coevolutionary analysis | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2003 | 190 |
| 35 | Perceptions and experiences of healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK | BMJ Open | 2020 | 187 |
| 36 | Lancet Commission: Stem cells and regenerative medicine | Lancet, The | 2018 | 184 |
| 37 | Gestation period, neonatal size and maternal investment in placental mammals | Nature | 1985 | 182 |
| 38 | Biased parental investment and reproductive success in Gabbra pastoralists | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 1996 | 182 |
| 39 | Helpful grandmothers in rural Ethiopia: A study of the effect of kin on child survival and growth | Evolution and Human Behavior | 2005 | 180 |
| 40 | Ontogeny of facial dimorphism and patterns of individual development within one human population | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 2006 | 177 |
| 41 | Law as discourse | History and Anthropology | 1985 | 176 |
| 42 | Independent Origins of Indian Caste and Tribal Paternal Lineages | Current Biology | 2004 | 176 |
| 43 | Discriminant function analyses in archaeology: are classification rates too good to be true? | Journal of Archaeological Science | 2011 | 175 |
| 44 | Frontline healthcare workers’ experiences with personal protective equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK: a rapid qualitative appraisal | BMJ Open | 2021 | 174 |
| 45 | Matrilocal residence is ancestral in Austronesian societies | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2009 | 171 |
| 46 | Cooperation and the evolution of hunter-gatherer storytelling | Nature Communications | 2017 | 171 |
| 47 | Investigating cultural evolution through biological phylogenetic analyses of Turkmen textiles | Journal of Anthropological Archaeology | 2002 | 168 |
| 48 | Phylogenetic analysis of the evolution of lactose digestion in adults | Human Biology | 1997 | 164 |
| 49 | The Poverty of Morality | Journal of Consumer Culture | 2001 | 156 |
| 50 | Human-like hand use in Australopithecus africanus | Science | 2015 | 156 |
