Journal of Human Evolution

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Human Evolution is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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Acetabular orientation, pelvic shape, and the evolution of hominin bipedality87
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The foot of the human–chimpanzee last common ancestor was not African ape-like: A response to Prang (2019)41
Calcar femorale variation in extant and fossil hominids: Implications for identifying bipedal locomotion in fossil hominins38
One journal to bring them all, and in the fossils bind them35
Paleoenvironments represented by the sediments of the Early Pliocene Mursi Formation, Omo Valley, Ethiopia33
A fistful of fossils: The rise and fall of the Orce Man and the politics of paleoanthropological science28
Morphological disparity and evolutionary transformations in the primate hyoid apparatus26
The human remains of Final Gravettian age from the Reclau Viver and Mollet III caves (Serinyà, NE Iberian Peninsula)26
Aspects of molar form and dietary proclivities of African colobines26
Femoral neck cortical bone distribution in Nacholapithecus from the Middle Miocene of Kenya25
New insights into the Neanderthal pelvis morphology based on a partial os coxae from El Sidrón (Asturias, Spain)25
Sedimentary ancient DNA metabarcoding as a tool for assessing prehistoric plant use at the Upper Paleolithic cave site Aghitu-3, Armenia25
On the age of Ain Hanech Oldowan locality (Algeria): First numerical dating results25
JHE 50th anniversary: Generosity24
Enamel thickness in the deciduous postcanine dentition of fossil and extant Pongo24
The macroevolutionary dynamics of activity pattern in mammals: Primates in context24
Ecomorphology in Kenya's Koobi Fora Formation: Reconstructing Early Pleistocene hominin paleoenvironments with 3D geometric morphometric analyses of bovid metapodials24
Molar enamel–dentine junction shape of Pliobates cataloniae and other Iberian pliopithecoids23
Sex-biased sampling may influence Homo naledi tooth size variation23
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Early euprimates already had a diverse locomotor repertoire: Evidence from ankle bone morphology22
Exploring the lack of articular ends at the Middle Pleistocene site of Qesem Cave, Israel22
The Neanderthal cervical spine revisited21
Early evidence for bear exploitation during MIS 9 from the site of Schöningen 12 (Germany)21
Late Acheulean occupations at Montagu Cave and the pattern of Middle Pleistocene behavioral change in Western Cape, southern Africa21
An updated analysis of hominin phylogeny with an emphasis on re-evaluating the phylogenetic relationships of Australopithecus sediba20
Virtual reconstruction and geometric morphometric analysis of the Kocabaş hominin fossil from Turkey: Implications for taxonomy and evolutionary significance19
Corrigendum to “The effect of bi-iliac breadth on core body temperature” [J. Hum. Evol. 195 (2024) 103580]18
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Challenges and perspectives on functional interpretations of australopith postcrania and the reconstruction of hominin locomotion18
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The stratigraphy and formation of Middle Stone Age deposits in Cave 1B, Klasies River Main site, South Africa, with implications for the context, age, and cultural association of the KRM 41815/SAM-AP 17
Introduction to special issue: In search for modern humans and the Early Upper Paleolithic at Manot Cave, Western Galilee, Israel17
The effects of carnivore diversity on scavenging opportunities and hominin range expansion during Out of Africa I17
Micro-computed tomography unveils anatomy of the oldest known plesiadapiform cranium17
A normal magnetostratigraphic polarity interval in the Main Ethiopian Rift at 1.6 Ma: Implications for Acheulean and Homo erectus chronology16
New fossil hominins from the Upper Laetolil Beds, Laetoli, Tanzania16
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Distinguishing primate taxa with enamel incremental variables16
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The earliest hylobatid from the Late Miocene of China16
Morphological integration and evolutionary potential of the primate shoulder: Variation among taxa and implications for genetic covariances with the basicranium, pelvis, and arm16
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Karst terrain in the western upper Galilee, Israel: Speleogenesis, hydrogeology and human preference of Manot Cave14
A phylogenetic perspective on the evolution of early hominin foot morphology14
Virtual reconstruction and geometric morphometric analysis of the Kocabaş fossil hominin from Turkey and implications for taxonomy and evolutionary significance: A commentary on Mori et al. (2024)14
A cadaveric study of wrist-joint moments in chimpanzees and orangutans with implications for the evolution of knuckle-walking14
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The Marine Isotope Stage 5 (∼105 ka) lithic assemblage from Ga-Mohana Hill North Rockshelter and insights into social transmission across the Kalahari Basin and its environs14
Serial reconstruction of Hominini manual phalanges13
Jaw-muscle fiber architecture and skull form facilitate relatively wide jaw gapes in male cercopithecoid monkeys13
Trabecular bone volume fraction in Holocene and Late Pleistocene humans13
JHE: The case for preserving a legacy journal and its community13
The fauna from Mughr el-Hamamah, Jordan: Insights on human hunting behavior during the Early Upper Paleolithic13
Phylogenetic comparative analysis of suspensory adaptations in primates13
Two Late Pleistocene human femora from Trinil, Indonesia: Implications for body size and behavior in Southeast Asia12
A three-dimensional geometric morphometric study of Miocene ape lumbar vertebrae, with implications for hominoid locomotor evolution12
Direct cosmogenic nuclide isochron burial dating of early Acheulian stone tools at the T69 Complex (FLK West, Olduvai Bed II, Tanzania)12
Evolutionary trend in dental size in fossil orangutans from the Pleistocene of Chongzuo, Guangxi, southern China12
Hominin nomenclature and the importance of information systems for managing complexity in paleoanthropology11
Early Upper Paleolithic cultural variability in the Southern Levant: New evidence from Nahal Rahaf 2 Rockshelter, Judean Desert, Israel11
An ancient cranium from Dmanisi: Evidence for interpersonal violence, disease, and possible predation by carnivores on Early Pleistocene Homo11
A Late Middle Pleistocene human tooth from the Luonan Basin (Shaanxi, China)11
Adaptations for bipedal walking: Musculoskeletal structure and three-dimensional joint mechanics of humans and bipedal chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)11
Ulnar morphology of Pliobates cataloniae (Pliopithecoidea: Crouzeliidae): Insights into catarrhine locomotor diversity and forelimb evolution11
Chimpanzee hind limb muscle electromyographic activity patterns during locomotion11
Initial Upper Paleolithic bone technology and personal ornaments at Bacho Kiro Cave (Bulgaria)10
Reconstructing the provenance of the hominin fossils from Trinil (Java, Indonesia) through an integrated analysis of the historical and recent excavations10
Biomechanical correlates of zygomaxillary-surface shape in papionin primates and the effects of hard-object feeding on mangabey facial form10
Morphological variation of the maxilla in modern humans and African apes10
Three-dimensional geometric morphometric study of the Xuchang 2 cranium10
An ape partial postcranial skeleton (KNM-NP 64631) from the Middle Miocene of Napudet, northern Kenya10
First articulating os coxae, femur, and tibia of a small adult Paranthropus robustus from Member 1 (Hanging Remnant) of the Swartkrans Formation, South Africa10
Morphological affinities of a fossil ulna (KNM-WS 65401) from Buluk, Kenya9
Description and taxonomic assessment of fossil Cercopithecidae from the Pliocene Galili Formation (Ethiopia)9
Effect of binocular visual cue availability on fruit and insect grasping performance in two cheirogaleids: Implications for primate origins hypotheses9
Unexpected variation of human molar size patterns9
Variations by degrees: Western European paleoenvironmental fluctuations across MIS 13–119
Corrigendum to “Maxilla of Siamopithecus eocaenus (Anthropoidea, Primates) from the Paleogene of Krabi, Thailand, and its taxonomic status” [J. Hum. Evol. 198 (2025) 103614]9
Revealing neuromuscular similarities between baboons and humans: A commentary on9
Investigating foundations for hominin fire exploitation: Savanna-dwelling chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in fire-altered landscapes9
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The taxonomic attribution of African hominin postcrania from the Miocene through the Pleistocene: Associations and assumptions8
Corrigendum to “Biomechanics of the mandible of Macaca mulatta during the power stroke of mastication: Loading, deformation, and strain regimes and the impact of food type” [Journal of Human Evolution8
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Portable x-ray fluorescence spectroscopy geochemical sourcing of Miocene primate fossils from Kenya8
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Personal ornaments from Hayonim and Manot caves (Israel) hint at symbolic ties between the Levantine and the European Aurignacian8
Using BayesModelS to provide Bayesian- and phylogenetically-informed primate body mass predictions8
Structural properties of the Late Pleistocene Liujiang femoral diaphyses from southern China7
World variation in three-rooted lower second molars and implications for the hominin fossil record7
New remains of the Miocene great ape Anoiapithecus brevirostris from Abocador de Can Mata7
The Grotte du Bison Neandertals (Arcy-sur-Cure, France)7
Contingency rules7
Dental microwear of Neogene cercopithecoids from the Turkana Basin, Kenya7
Mosaic habitats at Woranso-Mille (Ethiopia) during the Pliocene and implications for Australopithecus paleoecology and taxonomic diversity7
Geometric morphometric variability in the supraorbital and orbital region of Middle Pleistocene hominins: Implications for the taxonomy and evolution of later Homo7
Early Pleistocene hominin teeth from Gongwangling of Lantian, Central China7
Stone selection by wild chimpanzees shares patterns with Oldowan hominins7
Feeding ecology of the last European colobine monkey, Dolichopithecus ruscinensis6
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Humanlike manual activities in Australopithecus6
C4 plant food loss probably influenced Paranthropus boisei's extinction: A reply to Patterson et al.'s commentary on Quinn and Lepre (2021)6
Revising the oldest Oldowan: Updated optimal linear estimation models and the impact of Nyayanga (Kenya)6
Cranial vault thickness, its internal organization, and its relationship with endocranial shape in Neanderthals and modern humans6
Retrodeformation and functional anatomy of a cranial thoracic vertebra in Nacholapithecus kerioi6
Descriptive catalog of Homo naledi dental remains from the 2013 to 2015 excavations of the Dinaledi Chamber, site U.W. 101, within the Rising Star cave system, South Africa6
Evidence for the smallest fossil Pongo in southern China6
Relative leg-to-arm skeletal strength proportions in orangutans by species and sex5
A comparative study of the Early Pleistocene carnivore guild from Dmanisi (Georgia)5
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A new chronological framework for Chuandong Cave and its implications for the appearance of modern humans in southern China5
The endocast of the late Middle Paleolithic Manot 1 specimen, Western Galilee, Israel5
Modern African ecosystems as landscape-scale analogues for reconstructing woody cover and early hominin environments5
Preliminary observations on the Levantine Aurignacian sequence of Manot Cave: Cultural affiliations and regional perspectives5
No scientific evidence that Homo naledi buried their dead and produced rock art5
Estimation of the upper diaphragm in KNM-WT 15000 (Homo erectus s.l.) and Kebara 2 (Homo neanderthalensis) using a Homo sapiens model5
Sex estimation of the adult Neandertal Regourdou 1 (Montignac, France): Implications for sexing human fossil remains5
Postcranial evidence does not support habitual bipedalism in Sahelanthropus tchadensis: A reply to Daver et al. (2022)5
Paleoecological evidence for environmental specialization in Paranthropus boisei compared to early Homo5
Comparing the Boxgrove and Atapuerca (Sima de los Huesos) human fossils: Do they represent distinct paleodemes?5
The effect of bi-iliac breadth on core body temperature5
Investigating the co-occurrence of Neanderthals and modern humans in Belgium through direct radiocarbon dating of bone implements5
Fifty years of paleoanthropology in Journal of Human Evolution: Historical perspectives and future directions4
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Evaluating landscape knowledge and lithic resource selection at the French Middle Paleolithic site of the Bau de l'Aubesier4
Divergent otolithic systems in the inner ear of Paranthropus robustus and Australopithecus africanus4
Evolutionary trends of the lateral foot in catarrhine primates: Contextualizing the fourth metatarsal of Australopithecus afarensis4
Hypoconulid loss in cercopithecins: Functional and developmental considerations4
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Traces of dietary patterns in saliva of hominids: Profiling salivary amino acid fingerprints in great apes and humans4
JHE 50th Anniversary: The joys of technology4
Corrigendum to “Body mass estimation from footprint size in hominins” [Journal of Human Evolution 156 (2021)102997]4
Hominin locomotion and evolution in the Late Miocene to Late Pliocene4
Machine learning, bootstrapping, null models, and why we are still not 100% sure which bone surface modifications were made by crocodiles4
A fresh look at an iconic human fossil: Virtual reconstruction of the KNM-WT 15000 cranium3
New Oldowan locality Sare-Abururu (ca. 1.7 Ma) provides evidence of diverse hominin behaviors on the Homa Peninsula, Kenya3
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JHE 50th anniversary: What does a journal owe its discipline?3
Morphological description and evolutionary significance of 300 ka hominin facial bones from Hualongdong, China3
Total evidence phylogeny of platyrrhine primates and a comparison of undated and tip-dating approaches3
Challenging the antiquity of the Cradle of Humankind, South Africa: Geochronological evidence restricts the age of Eurotomys bolti and Parapapio to less than 2.3 Ma at Waypoint 160, Bolt's Farm3
Aurignacian groups at Isturitz (France) adapted to a shifting environment upon their arrival in Western Europe ∼42,000 years ago3
Additional analyses of stem catarrhine and hominoid dental morphology support Kapi ramnagarensis as a stem hylobatid3
Unique nasal turbinal morphology reveals Homunculus patagonicus functionally converged on modern platyrrhine olfactory sensitivity3
Reappraisal of the chronology of Orgnac 3 Lower-to-Middle Paleolithic site (Ardèche, France), a regional key sequence for the Middle Pleistocene of southern France3
The Western European Acheulean: Reading variability at a regional scale3
Subsistence behavior during the Initial Upper Paleolithic in Europe: Site use, dietary practice, and carnivore exploitation at Bacho Kiro Cave (Bulgaria)3
Corrigendum to “Femur associated with the Deep Skull from the West Mouth of the Niah Caves (Sarawak, Malaysia)” [Journal of Human Evolution 127 (2019) 133–148]3
Neanderthal mobility over very long distances: The case of El Castillo cave (northern Spain) and the ‘Vasconian’ Mousterian3
New modern and Pleistocene fossil micromammal assemblages from Swartkrans, South Africa: Paleobiodiversity, taphonomic, and environmental context3
Variability in energy expenditure is much greater in males than females3
Functional and behavioral variation in intrinsic hand and foot digit proportions in primates3
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A cranial injury from the earliest Gravettian at the Cro-Magnon rock shelter (Vézère Valley, Dordogne, southwest France)3
Domestic spaces as crucibles of Paleolithic culture: An archaeological perspective3
A new species of fossil guenon (Cercopithecini, Cercopithecidae) from the Early Pleistocene Lower Ngaloba Beds, Laetoli, Tanzania3
Covariation between the cranium and the cervical vertebrae in hominids3
Examining the relationship between pelvic shape and numbers of lumbar vertebrae in anthropoid primates2
Phylogenetic analysis of Middle-Late Miocene apes2
Estimating ancestral ranges and biogeographical processes in early hominins2
Phylogeny and paleobiogeography of the enigmatic North American primate Ekgmowechashala illuminated by new fossils from Nebraska (USA) and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (China)2
Respect for males amid suppression of females: Selective use of aggression and fitness correlates in the male-dominated society of hamadryas baboons2
New insights into the diversity of strepsirrhine primates from the late early–early middle Eocene of North Africa (Algeria and Tunisia)2
New analyses of the Ardipithecus ramidus foot provide additional evidence of its African ape–like affinities: A reply to2
Early Pleistocene hominin subsistence behaviors in South Africa: Evidence from the hominin-bearing deposit of Cooper's D (Bloubank Valley, South Africa)2
Ilium morphological variation during growth in forager populations2
Continuity and innovation in the Late Acheulian: Technological and functional analysis of scrapers from Jaljulia, Southern Levant (500–300 ka)2
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Comparative anatomy of the carotid canal in the Miocene small-bodied catarrhine Pliobates cataloniae2
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The relative limb size of Homo naledi2
Persistent predators: Zooarchaeological evidence for specialized horse hunting at Schöningen 13II-42
JHE 50th Anniversary: The Early Years of JHE2
Knuckle-walking in Sahelanthropus? Locomotor inferences from the ulnae of fossil hominins and other hominoids2
Biomechanical and taxonomic diversity in the Early Pleistocene in East Africa: Structural analysis of a recently discovered femur shaft from Olduvai Gorge (bed I)2
The Marine Isotope Stage 3 landscape around Manot Cave (Israel) and the food habits of anatomically modern humans: New insights from the anthracological record and stable carbon isotope analysis of wi2
Comparing walking and running in persistence hunting2
Site formation processes at Manot Cave, Israel: Interplay between strata accumulation in the occupation area and the talus2
Additional isolated hominin canine tooth from Kanapoi, Kenya2
Morphological integration of the hominoid postcranium2
The game of models: Dietary reconstruction in human evolution2
Reconstruction of the locomotor repertoire of early primates in the light of astragalar and calcaneal shape1
Introduction to special issue “Humans in transition: The occupation of Western Europe, 600–400 Ka”1
Seasonality and Oldowan behavioral variability in East Africa1
Reconstructing Neanderthal diet: The case for carbohydrates1
Small mammals (Insectivora, Rodentia, Lagomorpha) from the Early Pleistocene hominin-bearing site of Dmanisi (Georgia)1
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Three-dimensional geometric morphometric analysis of the bony labyrinth of Xujiayao 61
Charles Kimberlin (Bob) Brain (1931–2023): Scientist of consequence, man of quality1
Cochlear morphology of Indonesian Homo erectus from Sangiran1
Investigating the internal structure of the suprainiac fossa in Xuchang 21
Functional morphological integration related to feeding biomechanics in the hominine skull1
The dental remains from the Early Upper Paleolithic of Manot Cave, Israel1
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Corrigendum to “New fossils of Australopithecus anamensis from Kanapoi, West Turkana, Kenya (2012–2015)” [Journal of Human Evolution 140 (2020) 102368]1
Implications of outgroup selection in the phylogenetic inference of hominoids and fossil hominins1
Shanidar 3 ‘rings the bell’: Virtual ribcage reconstruction and its implications for understanding the Neanderthal bauplan1
Evidence for the latest fossil Pongo in southern China1
Deciphering the correlated evolutionary responses of the hands and feet in modern humans1
Estimates of absolute crown strength and bite force in the lower postcanine dentition of Gigantopithecus blacki1
The hominin teeth from the late Middle Pleistocene Hualongdong site, China1
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Tracking the emergence of an organized use of space: A direct comparison of the spatial patterning within Middle and Upper Paleolithic open-air sites1
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Behavioral and phylogenetic correlates of limb length proportions in extant apes and monkeys: Implications for interpreting hominin fossils1
Diverse bone-calcium isotope compositions in Neandertals suggest different dietary strategies1
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