| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Upper Palaeolithic Siberian genome reveals dual ancestry of Native Americans | Nature | 2014 | 821 |
| 2 | Ancient human genome sequence of an extinct Palaeo-Eskimo | Nature | 2010 | 750 |
| 3 | An Aboriginal Australian Genome Reveals Separate Human Dispersals into Asia | Science | 2011 | 675 |
| 4 | The phylogeography of Y chromosome binary haplotypes and the origins of modern human populations | Annals of Human Genetics | 2001 | 665 |
| 5 | Identification of the remains of the Romanov family by DNA analysis | Nature Genetics | 1994 | 601 |
| 6 | Savanna Chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes verus, Hunt with Tools | Current Biology | 2007 | 399 |
| 7 | Late survival of Neanderthals at the southernmost extreme of Europe | Nature | 2006 | 390 |
| 8 | Genomic analyses inform on migration events during the peopling of Eurasia | Nature | 2016 | 360 |
| 9 | Mode 3 Technologies and the Evolution of Modern Humans | Cambridge Archaeological Journal | 1997 | 341 |
| 10 | Hominid species and stone-tool assemblages: how are they related? | Antiquity | 1987 | 269 |
| 11 | Capuchin Stone Tool Use in Caatinga Dry Forest | Science | 2004 | 242 |
| 12 | Ecology and energetics of encephalization in hominid evolution | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 1991 | 207 |
| 13 | Intensity, repetitiveness, and directionality of habitual adolescent mobility patterns influence the tibial diaphysis morphology of athletes | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 2009 | 205 |
| 14 | Hunter-gatherer postcranial robusticity relative to patterns of mobility, climatic adaptation, and selection for tissue economy | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 2006 | 200 |
| 15 | Habitual throwing and swimming correspond with upper limb diaphyseal strength and shape in modern human athletes | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 2009 | 183 |
| 16 | Which measures of diaphyseal robusticity are robust? A comparison of external methods of quantifying the strength of long bone diaphyses to cross‐sectional geometric properties | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 2007 | 171 |
| 17 | Tumor Necrosis Factor Promoter Polymorphism and Susceptibility to Lepromatous Leprosy | Journal of Infectious Diseases | 1997 | 169 |
| 18 | (null) | International Journal of Primatology | 2000 | 164 |
| 19 | Growth and ontogeny of sexual size dimorphism in the mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 2001 | 163 |
| 20 | Chronic T Cell-Mediated Enteropathy in Rural West African Children: Relationship with Nutritional Status and Small Bowel Function | Pediatric Research | 2003 | 161 |
| 21 | Long bone robusticity and subsistence behaviour among Later Stone Age foragers of the forest and fynbos biomes of South Africa | Journal of Archaeological Science | 2004 | 156 |
| 22 | Patterns of modern human diversification: Implications for Amerindian origins | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 1995 | 154 |
| 23 | Separating the post-Glacial coancestry of European and Asian Y chromosomes within haplogroup R1a | European Journal of Human Genetics | 2010 | 153 |
| 24 | Living archaeology: Artefacts of specific nest site fidelity in wild chimpanzees | Journal of Human Evolution | 2011 | 152 |
| 25 | Chimpanzee nest distribution and site reuse in a dry habitat: implications for early hominin ranging | Journal of Human Evolution | 2009 | 149 |
| 26 | Shared and Unique Components of Human Population Structure and Genome-Wide Signals of Positive Selection in South Asia | American Journal of Human Genetics | 2011 | 149 |
| 27 | Predation risk as an influence on group size in cercopithecoid primates: implications for social structure | Journal of Zoology | 1998 | 146 |
| 28 | The Multiregional Model of modern human origins: a reassessment of its morphological basis | Journal of Human Evolution | 1994 | 137 |
| 29 | Tool-composite reuse in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): archaeologically invisible steps in the technological evolution of early hominins? | Animal Cognition | 2009 | 129 |
| 30 | The biology of the colonizing ape | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 2007 | 122 |
| 31 | Human reproductive failure I: Immunological factors | Human Reproduction Update | 2001 | 121 |
| 32 | Social correlates of testosterone and ornamentation in male mandrills | Hormones and Behavior | 2008 | 121 |
| 33 | The question of robusticity and the relationship between cranial size and shape inHomo sapiens | Journal of Human Evolution | 1996 | 118 |
| 34 | Chimpanzee mothers at Bossou, Guinea carry the mummified remains of their dead infants | Current Biology | 2010 | 118 |
| 35 | (null) | Biodiversity and Conservation | 1999 | 116 |
| 36 | Speciation, extinction and climatic change in hominid evolution | Journal of Human Evolution | 1994 | 112 |
| 37 | The Lower Paleolithic of the Arabian Peninsula: Occupations, Adaptations, and Dispersals | Journal of World Prehistory | 2003 | 111 |
| 38 | Do Female Mandrills Prefer Brightly Colored Males? | International Journal of Primatology | 2005 | 111 |
| 39 | Precision of Measurement as a Component of Human Variation | Journal of Physiological Anthropology | 2007 | 110 |
| 40 | Philopatry and reproductive success in Bornean orang-utans (Pongo pygmaeus) | Molecular Ecology | 2006 | 109 |
| 41 | Density and population estimate of gibbons (Hylobates albibarbis) in the Sabangau catchment, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia | Primates | 2008 | 106 |
| 42 | Statural growth in known-age African elephants (Loxodonta africana) | Journal of Zoology | 1995 | 103 |
| 43 | Reproductive Parameters and Maternal Investment in Mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx) | International Journal of Primatology | 2002 | 102 |
| 44 | Stress, social behaviour, and secondary sexual traits in a male primate | Hormones and Behavior | 2010 | 97 |
| 45 | People and protected areas: a study of local perceptions of wildlife crop-damage conflict in an area bordering the Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania | Oryx | 2003 | 96 |
| 46 | In search of the last common ancestor: new findings on wild chimpanzees | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2010 | 96 |
| 47 | Chemical Composition of Scent-Gland Secretions in an Old World Monkey (Mandrillus sphinx): Influence of Sex, Male Status, and Individual Identity | Chemical Senses | 2010 | 96 |
| 48 | Signal content of red facial coloration in female mandrills ( Mandrillus sphinx ) | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2006 | 95 |
| 49 | DNA from ancient mammoth bones | Nature | 1994 | 92 |
| 50 | The Burden of Chronic Disease | Science | 2003 | 92 |
