| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The Evolution of Religion: How Cognitive By-Products, Adaptive Learning Heuristics, Ritual Displays, and Group Competition Generate Deep Commitments to Prosocial Religions | Biological Theory | 2010 | 399 |
| 2 | Cultural Niche Construction: An Introduction | Biological Theory | 2011 | 206 |
| 3 | The Pleasures and Perils of Darwinizing Culture (with Phylogenies) | Biological Theory | 2007 | 179 |
| 4 | A Cultural Niche Construction Theory of Initial Domestication | Biological Theory | 2011 | 171 |
| 5 | Legacy Effects: The Persistent Impact of Ecological Interactions | Biological Theory | 2011 | 163 |
| 6 | Runaway Social Selection for Displays of Partner Value and Altruism | Biological Theory | 2007 | 148 |
| 7 | The Problem of Biological Individuality | Biological Theory | 2010 | 147 |
| 8 | Holobionts as Units of Selection and a Model of Their Population Dynamics and Evolution | Biological Theory | 2018 | 134 |
| 9 | The Anatomy of Motivation: An Evolutionary-Ecological Approach | Biological Theory | 2013 | 132 |
| 10 | Theses on Biosemiotics: Prolegomena to a Theoretical Biology | Biological Theory | 2009 | 110 |
| 11 | Learning in Lithic Landscapes: A Reconsideration of the Hominid “Toolmaking” Niche | Biological Theory | 2014 | 104 |
| 12 | The Concept of Morphospaces in Evolutionary and Developmental Biology: Mathematics and Metaphors | Biological Theory | 2009 | 102 |
| 13 | Approaches to Information-Theoretic Analysis of Neural Activity | Biological Theory | 2006 | 101 |
| 14 | Ecological Inheritance and Cultural Inheritance: What Are They and How Do They Differ? | Biological Theory | 2011 | 100 |
| 15 | The Learning and Transmission of Hierarchical Cultural Recipes | Biological Theory | 2008 | 91 |
| 16 | Signaling Theory and Technologies of Communication in the Paleolithic | Biological Theory | 2014 | 91 |
| 17 | Epidemiology Without Biology: False Paradigms, Unfounded Assumptions, and Specious Statistics in Radiation Science (with Commentaries by Inge Schmitz-Feuerhake and Christopher Busby and a Reply by the Authors) | Biological Theory | 2016 | 88 |
| 18 | Cultural Niche Construction and Human Learning Environments: Investigating Sociocultural Perspectives | Biological Theory | 2011 | 77 |
| 19 | Biology Clearly Needs Morphometrics. Does Morphometrics Need Biology? | Biological Theory | 2009 | 76 |
| 20 | Reciprocal Linkage between Self-organizing Processes is Sufficient for Self-reproduction and Evolvability | Biological Theory | 2006 | 72 |
| 21 | Connecting the Dots: Anatomical Network Analysis in Morphological EvoDevo | Biological Theory | 2014 | 72 |
| 22 | Populations as Individuals | Biological Theory | 2009 | 71 |
| 23 | Making Knowledge in Synthetic Biology: Design Meets Kludge | Biological Theory | 2009 | 67 |
| 24 | Public Goods With Punishment and Abstaining in Finite and Infinite Populations | Biological Theory | 2008 | 63 |
| 25 | Is Non-genetic Inheritance Just a Proximate Mechanism? A Corroboration of the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis | Biological Theory | 2013 | 63 |
| 26 | Why Modeling Cultural Evolution Is Still Such a Challenge | Biological Theory | 2006 | 62 |
| 27 | The Transition to Experiencing: II. The Evolution of Associative Learning Based on Feelings | Biological Theory | 2007 | 62 |
| 28 | Gestures of Despair and Hope: A View on Deliberate Self-harm From Economics and Evolutionary Biology | Biological Theory | 2008 | 62 |
| 29 | Finding a Common Bandwidth: Causes of Convergence and Diversity in Paleolithic Beads | Biological Theory | 2014 | 62 |
| 30 | Adaptationism and the Logic of Research Questions: How to Think Clearly About Evolutionary Causes | Biological Theory | 2015 | 59 |
| 31 | Genome Informatics: The Role of DNA in Cellular Computations | Biological Theory | 2006 | 58 |
| 32 | Animal Development, an Open-Ended Segment of Life | Biological Theory | 2011 | 58 |
| 33 | The Transition to Experiencing: I. Limited Learning and Limited Experiencing | Biological Theory | 2007 | 57 |
| 34 | Degeneracy at Multiple Levels of Complexity | Biological Theory | 2010 | 56 |
| 35 | Ecological Models of Language Competition | Biological Theory | 2008 | 54 |
| 36 | A Mixed Self: The Role of Symbiosis in Development | Biological Theory | 2011 | 53 |
| 37 | Symbols, Signals, and the Archaeological Record | Biological Theory | 2014 | 53 |
| 38 | Functions and Health: Towards a Praxis-Oriented Concept of Health | Biological Theory | 2018 | 52 |
| 39 | Do Molecular Clocks Run at All? A Critique of Molecular Systematics | Biological Theory | 2006 | 51 |
| 40 | A Paleolithic Reciprocation Crisis: Symbols, Signals, and Norms | Biological Theory | 2014 | 50 |
| 41 | Biological and Cultural Evolution: Similar but Different | Biological Theory | 2007 | 48 |
| 42 | Niche Inheritance: A Possible Basis for Classifying Multiple Inheritance Systems in Evolution | Biological Theory | 2007 | 47 |
| 43 | The Cambrian Explosion and the Origins of Embodied Cognition | Biological Theory | 2013 | 47 |
| 44 | Complexity, Hypersets, and the Ecological Perspective on Perception-Action | Biological Theory | 2007 | 45 |
| 45 | Social-Ecological Theory of Maximization: Basic Concepts and Two Initial Models | Biological Theory | 2019 | 45 |
| 46 | Genes, Genomes, and Genomics | Biological Theory | 2011 | 44 |
| 47 | Prisoners of Abstraction? The Theory and Measure of Genetic Variation, and the Very Concept of “Race” | Biological Theory | 2013 | 44 |
| 48 | Skill and Collaboration in the Evolution of Human Cognition | Biological Theory | 2013 | 41 |
| 49 | Niche Construction and the Toolkits of Hunter–Gatherers and Food Producers | Biological Theory | 2011 | 40 |
| 50 | Herbert Simon’s Silent Revolution | Biological Theory | 2007 | 38 |
