| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Drought Sensitivity of the Amazon Rainforest | Science | 2009 | 1,443 |
| 2 | Language Ideology | Annual Review of Anthropology | 1994 | 1,109 |
| 3 | Transnational Human Rights and Local Activism: Mapping the Middle | American Anthropologist | 2006 | 977 |
| 4 | New fossils from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco and the pan-African origin of Homo sapiens | Nature | 2017 | 822 |
| 5 | Variation in wood density determines spatial patterns inAmazonian forest biomass | Global Change Biology | 2004 | 633 |
| 6 | Increasing dominance of large lianas in Amazonian forests | Nature | 2002 | 500 |
| 7 | Basin-wide variations in Amazon forest structure and function are mediated by both soils and climate | Biogeosciences | 2012 | 487 |
| 8 | The above-ground coarse wood productivity of 104 Neotropical forest plots | Global Change Biology | 2004 | 436 |
| 9 | Increasing biomass in Amazonian forest plots | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2004 | 405 |
| 10 | Natural history ofHomo erectus | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 2003 | 404 |
| 11 | Evolution of early Homo : An integrated biological perspective | Science | 2014 | 394 |
| 12 | Pattern and process in Amazon tree turnover, 1976–2001 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2004 | 370 |
| 13 | Assessment of the Diversity of African Primates | International Journal of Primatology | 2003 | 343 |
| 14 | Catarrhine primate divergence dates estimated from complete mitochondrial genomes: concordance with fossil and nuclear DNA evidence | Journal of Human Evolution | 2005 | 340 |
| 15 | Body weight, diet and home range area in primates | Nature | 1976 | 316 |
| 16 | Primate brain size is predicted by diet but not sociality | Nature Ecology and Evolution | 2017 | 310 |
| 17 | A late Middle Pleistocene Denisovan mandible from the Tibetan Plateau | Nature | 2019 | 302 |
| 18 | Global Conservation Significance of Ecuador's Yasuní National Park | PLoS ONE | 2010 | 293 |
| 19 | Implications of new early Homo fossils from Ileret, east of Lake Turkana, Kenya | Nature | 2007 | 264 |
| 20 | Primate phylogenetic relationships and divergence dates inferred from complete mitochondrial genomes | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | 2014 | 260 |
| 21 | A proper study for mankind: Analogies from the Papionin monkeys and their implications for human evolution | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 2001 | 255 |
| 22 | The evolutionary context of the first hominins | Nature | 2011 | 245 |
| 23 | Primate evolution – in and out of Africa | Current Biology | 1998 | 227 |
| 24 | Explosive Pleistocene range expansion leads to widespread Amazonian sympatry between robust and gracile capuchin monkeys | Journal of Biogeography | 2012 | 220 |
| 25 | Early Dispersals of Homo from Africa | Annual Review of Anthropology | 2004 | 202 |
| 26 | An introduction to multimodal communication | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 2013 | 199 |
| 27 | Neanderthal taxonomy reconsidered: Implications of 3D primate models of intra- and interspecific differences | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2004 | 190 |
| 28 | The phylogenetic relationships of the early catarrhine primates: a review of the current evidence | Journal of Human Evolution | 1987 | 189 |
| 29 | Initial Upper Palaeolithic Homo sapiens from Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria | Nature | 2020 | 188 |
| 30 | Embedded Aesthetics: Creating a Discursive Space for Indigenous Media | Cultural Anthropology | 1994 | 181 |
| 31 | Protein sequences bound to mineral surfaces persist into deep time | ELife | 2016 | 176 |
| 32 | Disability Worlds | Annual Review of Anthropology | 2013 | 173 |
| 33 | A new west African chimpanzee subspecies? | Nature | 1997 | 167 |
| 34 | Route-based travel and shared routes in sympatric spider and woolly monkeys: cognitive and evolutionary implications | Animal Cognition | 2007 | 167 |
| 35 | New fossils from Koobi Fora in northern Kenya confirm taxonomic diversity in early Homo | Nature | 2012 | 163 |
| 36 | The use of museum specimens with high-throughput DNA sequencers | Journal of Human Evolution | 2015 | 163 |
| 37 | The makers of the Protoaurignacian and implications for Neandertal extinction | Science | 2015 | 153 |
| 38 | New postcranial remains of Victoriapithecus from the middle Miocene of Kenya | Journal of Human Evolution | 1989 | 151 |
| 39 | The use of race variables in genetic studies of complex traits and the goal of reducing health disparities: A transdisciplinary perspective. | American Psychologist | 2005 | 150 |
| 40 | Isotopic dietary reconstructions of Pliocene herbivores at Laetoli: Implications for early hominin paleoecology | Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology | 2007 | 148 |
| 41 | A reassessment of the phylogenetic relationships of Oreopithecus bambolii gervais | Journal of Human Evolution | 1986 | 141 |
| 42 | Rights, interests and expectations: Indigenous perspectives on unrestricted access to genomic data | Nature Reviews Genetics | 2020 | 141 |
| 43 | Dental eruption schedules of wild and captive baboons | American Journal of Primatology | 1988 | 136 |
| 44 | The Pharmaceutical Person | BioSocieties | 2006 | 134 |
| 45 | X-chromosomal window into the evolutionary history of the guenons (Primates: Cercopithecini) | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | 2005 | 128 |
| 46 | Growth, development, and sexual dimorphism in vervet monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops) at four sites in Kenya | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 1997 | 127 |
| 47 | Nuclear gene trees and the phylogenetic relationships of the mangabeys (Primates: Papionini) | Molecular Biology and Evolution | 1998 | 122 |
| 48 | Comparative ACE2 variation and primate COVID-19 risk | Communications Biology | 2020 | 121 |
| 49 | Tempo and mode in hominid evolution | Nature | 1981 | 120 |
| 50 | Mitochondrial phylogeny and systematics of baboons (Papio) | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 2004 | 116 |
