| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Biological, clinical and population relevance of 95 loci for blood lipids | Nature | 2010 | 3,249 |
| 2 | Impending extinction crisis of the world’s primates: Why primates matter | Science Advances | 2017 | 912 |
| 3 | PHENOTYPIC, GENETIC, AND ENVIRONMENTAL MORPHOLOGICAL INTEGRATION IN THE CRANIUM | Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution | 1982 | 674 |
| 4 | Epigenetics and the embodiment of race: Developmental origins of US racial disparities in cardiovascular health | American Journal of Human Biology | 2009 | 561 |
| 5 | Prolonged myelination in human neocortical evolution | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2012 | 492 |
| 6 | Intergenerational Wealth Transmission and the Dynamics of Inequality in Small-Scale Societies | Science | 2009 | 426 |
| 7 | Fetal origins of developmental plasticity: Are fetal cues reliable predictors of future nutritional environments? | American Journal of Human Biology | 2005 | 414 |
| 8 | Metabolic costs and evolutionary implications of human brain development | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2014 | 409 |
| 9 | Longitudinal evidence that fatherhood decreases testosterone in human males | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2011 | 400 |
| 10 | Preservation Methods Differ in Fecal Microbiome Stability, Affecting Suitability for Field Studies | MSystems | 2016 | 367 |
| 11 | The high price of debt: Household financial debt and its impact on mental and physical health | Social Science and Medicine | 2013 | 317 |
| 12 | Relationships among ontogenetic, static, and evolutionary allometry | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 1982 | 305 |
| 13 | The Effects of Captivity on the Mammalian Gut Microbiome | Integrative and Comparative Biology | 2017 | 301 |
| 14 | New loci associated with birth weight identify genetic links between intrauterine growth and adult height and metabolism | Nature Genetics | 2013 | 293 |
| 15 | QUANTITATIVE GENETICS OF DEVELOPMENT: GENETIC CORRELATIONS AMONG AGE‐SPECIFIC TRAIT VALUES AND THE EVOLUTION OF ONTOGENY | Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution | 1983 | 289 |
| 16 | Psychosocial and Behavioral Predictors of Inflammation in Middle-Aged and Older Adults: The Chicago Health, Aging, and Social Relations Study | Psychosomatic Medicine | 2006 | 281 |
| 17 | Life history theory and the immune system: Steps toward a human ecological immunology | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 2003 | 266 |
| 18 | Those who can do: Wealth, status, and reproductive success on Ifaluk | Ethology and Sociobiology | 1985 | 249 |
| 19 | Acquisition of the same/different concept by an African Grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus): Learning with respect to categories of color, shape, and material | Learning and Behavior | 1987 | 244 |
| 20 | The human microbiome in evolution | BMC Biology | 2017 | 243 |
| 21 | Evolutionary trends in host physiology outweigh dietary niche in structuring primate gut microbiomes | ISME Journal | 2019 | 236 |
| 22 | Metabolic correlates of hominid brain evolution | Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A, Molecular & Integrative Physiology | 2003 | 235 |
| 23 | Multi-disciplinary perspectives on post-partum depression: An anthropological critique | Social Science and Medicine | 1983 | 234 |
| 24 | Patterns of variation in the ontogeny of primate body size dimorphism | Journal of Human Evolution | 1992 | 234 |
| 25 | Daily energy expenditure through the human life course | Science | 2021 | 234 |
| 26 | Gut Microbiome of Coexisting BaAka Pygmies and Bantu Reflects Gradients of Traditional Subsistence Patterns | Cell Reports | 2016 | 231 |
| 27 | THE EFFECT OF MARKET ECONOMIES ON THE WELL-BEING OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND ON THEIR USE OF RENEWABLE NATURAL RESOURCES | Annual Review of Anthropology | 2005 | 229 |
| 28 | Biological memories of past environments: Epigenetic pathways to health disparities | Epigenetics | 2011 | 225 |
| 29 | Correlates of sexual dimorphism in primates: Ecological and size variables | International Journal of Primatology | 1982 | 219 |
| 30 | Soil pH, Bone Preservation, and Sampling Bias at Mortuary Sites | American Antiquity | 1981 | 217 |
| 31 | Dissociative Experience and Cultural Neuroscience: Narrative, Metaphor and Mechanism | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | 2008 | 209 |
| 32 | Fertility and the Development of Agriculture in the Prehistoric Midwest | American Antiquity | 1986 | 205 |
| 33 | Comparative Analyses of Vertebrate Gut Microbiomes Reveal Convergence between Birds and Bats | MBio | 2020 | 204 |
| 34 | Developmental Origins of Adult Function and Health: Evolutionary Hypotheses | Annual Review of Anthropology | 2009 | 198 |
| 35 | An ecomorphological model of the initial hominid dispersal from Africa | Journal of Human Evolution | 2002 | 196 |
| 36 | An evolutionary review of human telomere biology: The thrifty telomere hypothesis and notes on potential adaptive paternal effects | American Journal of Human Biology | 2011 | 196 |
| 37 | Effects of Brain Evolution on Human Nutrition and Metabolism | Annual Review of Nutrition | 2007 | 193 |
| 38 | Correlates of delay-discount rates: Evidence from Tsimane' Amerindians of the Bolivian rain forest | Journal of Economic Psychology | 2002 | 192 |
| 39 | Trade-offs between acquired and innate immune defenses in humans | Evolution, Medicine and Public Health | 2016 | 191 |
| 40 | Maternal Height and Child Growth Patterns | Journal of Pediatrics | 2013 | 190 |
| 41 | The World in Dress: Anthropological Perspectives on Clothing, Fashion, and Culture | Annual Review of Anthropology | 2004 | 189 |
| 42 | Seroprevalence of Epstein-Barr Virus Infection in U.S. Children Ages 6-19, 2003-2010 | PLoS ONE | 2013 | 184 |
| 43 | Health and differential survival in prehistoric populations: Prenatal dental defects | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 1979 | 180 |
| 44 | Structural allometry of the prosimian mandibular corpus and symphysis | Journal of Human Evolution | 1991 | 175 |
| 45 | Delayed paternal age of reproduction in humans is associated with longer telomeres across two generations of descendants | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2012 | 174 |
| 46 | The 7R polymorphism in the dopamine receptor D4 gene (DRD4) is associated with financial risk taking in men | Evolution and Human Behavior | 2009 | 173 |
| 47 | Foraging specialization without relatedness or dominance among co-founding ant queens | Nature | 1989 | 171 |
| 48 | Patterns of group splitting within matrilineal kinship groups | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 1979 | 170 |
| 49 | Climatic influences on basal metabolic rates among circumpolar populations | American Journal of Human Biology | 2002 | 167 |
| 50 | Worldwide allele frequencies of the human apolipoprotein E gene: Climate, local adaptations, and evolutionary history | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 2010 | 167 |
