Journal of Human Evolution

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Human Evolution is 2. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
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A fistful of fossils: The rise and fall of the Orce Man and the politics of paleoanthropological science98
One journal to bring them all, and in the fossils bind them42
The foot of the human–chimpanzee last common ancestor was not African ape-like: A response to Prang (2019)35
Calcar femorale variation in extant and fossil hominids: Implications for identifying bipedal locomotion in fossil hominins34
Paleoenvironments represented by the sediments of the Early Pliocene Mursi Formation, Omo Valley, Ethiopia28
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Morphological disparity and evolutionary transformations in the primate hyoid apparatus27
Acetabular orientation, pelvic shape, and the evolution of hominin bipedality27
Aspects of molar form and dietary proclivities of African colobines27
On the age of Ain Hanech Oldowan locality (Algeria): First numerical dating results27
Sedimentary ancient DNA metabarcoding as a tool for assessing prehistoric plant use at the Upper Paleolithic cave site Aghitu-3, Armenia27
The human remains of Final Gravettian age from the Reclau Viver and Mollet III caves (Serinyà, NE Iberian Peninsula)27
Femoral neck cortical bone distribution in Nacholapithecus from the Middle Miocene of Kenya25
Contextualizing the Early Upper Paleolithic in the Negev Desert, southern Levant: Chronologies, lithic technologies, and paleoenvironments of the Boker sites25
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 context23
Molar enamel–dentine junction shape of Pliobates cataloniae and other Iberian pliopithecoids22
Ecomorphology in Kenya's Koobi Fora Formation: Reconstructing Early Pleistocene hominin paleoenvironments with 3D geometric morphometric analyses of bovid metapodials22
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New insights into the Neanderthal pelvis morphology based on a partial os coxae from El Sidrón (Asturias, Spain)21
Late Acheulean occupations at Montagu Cave and the pattern of Middle Pleistocene behavioral change in Western Cape, southern Africa21
Early euprimates already had a diverse locomotor repertoire: Evidence from ankle bone morphology20
Sex-biased sampling may influence Homo naledi tooth size variation20
Early evidence for bear exploitation during MIS 9 from the site of Schöningen 12 (Germany)19
Paleoecological context of Homo aff. erectus (ATE7-1) at Sima del Elefante (late Early Pleistocene, Atapuerca, Spain) inferred from the herpetofaunal assemblage19
Exploring the lack of articular ends at the Middle Pleistocene site of Qesem Cave, Israel19
Virtual reconstruction and geometric morphometric analysis of the Kocabaş hominin fossil from Turkey: Implications for taxonomy and evolutionary significance19
An updated analysis of hominin phylogeny with an emphasis on re-evaluating the phylogenetic relationships of Australopithecus sediba18
The Neanderthal cervical spine revisited18
Corrigendum to “The effect of bi-iliac breadth on core body temperature” [J. Hum. Evol. 195 (2024) 103580]17
Challenges and perspectives on functional interpretations of australopith postcrania and the reconstruction of hominin locomotion17
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Micro-computed tomography unveils anatomy of the oldest known plesiadapiform cranium16
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The effects of carnivore diversity on scavenging opportunities and hominin range expansion during Out of Africa I16
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Distinguishing primate taxa with enamel incremental variables15
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Morphological integration and evolutionary potential of the primate shoulder: Variation among taxa and implications for genetic covariances with the basicranium, pelvis, and arm14
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New fossil hominins from the Upper Laetolil Beds, Laetoli, Tanzania14
The earliest hylobatid from the Late Miocene of China14
A normal magnetostratigraphic polarity interval in the Main Ethiopian Rift at 1.6 Ma: Implications for Acheulean and Homo erectus chronology13
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 13
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)12
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A cadaveric study of wrist-joint moments in chimpanzees and orangutans with implications for the evolution of knuckle-walking12
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 environs12
Revisiting hominin scavenging through the lens of optimal foraging theory11
Phylogenetic comparative analysis of suspensory adaptations in primates11
A three-dimensional geometric morphometric study of Miocene ape lumbar vertebrae, with implications for hominoid locomotor evolution11
The fauna from Mughr el-Hamamah, Jordan: Insights on human hunting behavior during the Early Upper Paleolithic11
Jaw-muscle fiber architecture and skull form facilitate relatively wide jaw gapes in male cercopithecoid monkeys11
Trabecular bone volume fraction in Holocene and Late Pleistocene humans11
A phylogenetic perspective on the evolution of early hominin foot morphology11
JHE: The case for preserving a legacy journal and its community11
An ancient cranium from Dmanisi: Evidence for interpersonal violence, disease, and possible predation by carnivores on Early Pleistocene Homo10
Early Upper Paleolithic cultural variability in the Southern Levant: New evidence from Nahal Rahaf 2 Rockshelter, Judean Desert, Israel10
Serial reconstruction of Hominini manual phalanges10
Adaptations for bipedal walking: Musculoskeletal structure and three-dimensional joint mechanics of humans and bipedal chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)10
First articulating os coxae, femur, and tibia of a small adult Paranthropus robustus from Member 1 (Hanging Remnant) of the Swartkrans Formation, South Africa10
Chimpanzee hind limb muscle electromyographic activity patterns during locomotion10
Two Late Pleistocene human femora from Trinil, Indonesia: Implications for body size and behavior in Southeast Asia10
Hominin nomenclature and the importance of information systems for managing complexity in paleoanthropology10
Direct cosmogenic nuclide isochron burial dating of early Acheulian stone tools at the T69 Complex (FLK West, Olduvai Bed II, Tanzania)10
Three-dimensional geometric morphometric study of the Xuchang 2 cranium9
Ulnar morphology of Pliobates cataloniae (Pliopithecoidea: Crouzeliidae): Insights into catarrhine locomotor diversity and forelimb evolution9
Reconstructing the provenance of the hominin fossils from Trinil (Java, Indonesia) through an integrated analysis of the historical and recent excavations9
Revealing neuromuscular similarities between baboons and humans: A commentary on9
An ape partial postcranial skeleton (KNM-NP 64631) from the Middle Miocene of Napudet, northern Kenya9
Morphological variation of the maxilla in modern humans and African apes9
Biomechanical correlates of zygomaxillary-surface shape in papionin primates and the effects of hard-object feeding on mangabey facial form9
A Late Middle Pleistocene human tooth from the Luonan Basin (Shaanxi, China)9
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
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
Effect of binocular visual cue availability on fruit and insect grasping performance in two cheirogaleids: Implications for primate origins hypotheses8
Corrigendum to “Enhancing the reconstruction of the Gabasa Neandertal's diet using Ca and Sr stable isotopes” [J. Hum. Evol. 207 (2025) 103747]8
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Initial Upper Paleolithic bone technology and personal ornaments at Bacho Kiro Cave (Bulgaria)8
Portable x-ray fluorescence spectroscopy geochemical sourcing of Miocene primate fossils from Kenya8
Investigating foundations for hominin fire exploitation: Savanna-dwelling chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in fire-altered landscapes8
The taxonomic attribution of African hominin postcrania from the Miocene through the Pleistocene: Associations and assumptions8
Corrigendum to “Maxilla of Siamopithecus eocaenus (Anthropoidea, Primates) from the Paleogene of Krabi, Thailand, and its taxonomic status” [J. Hum. Evol. 198 (2025) 103614]8
Variations by degrees: Western European paleoenvironmental fluctuations across MIS 13–118
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World variation in three-rooted lower second molars and implications for the hominin fossil record7
Mosaic habitats at Woranso-Mille (Ethiopia) during the Pliocene and implications for Australopithecus paleoecology and taxonomic diversity7
Retrodeformation and functional anatomy of a cranial thoracic vertebra in Nacholapithecus kerioi7
C4 plant food loss probably influenced Paranthropus boisei's extinction: A reply to Patterson et al.'s commentary on Quinn and Lepre (2021)7
Stone selection by wild chimpanzees shares patterns with Oldowan hominins7
Early Pleistocene hominin teeth from Gongwangling of Lantian, Central China7
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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 Africa7
Cranial vault thickness, its internal organization, and its relationship with endocranial shape in Neanderthals and modern humans7
Dental microwear of Neogene cercopithecoids from the Turkana Basin, Kenya7
New remains of the Miocene great ape Anoiapithecus brevirostris from Abocador de Can Mata7
Structural properties of the Late Pleistocene Liujiang femoral diaphyses from southern China7
The Grotte du Bison Neandertals (Arcy-sur-Cure, France)7
Feeding ecology of the last European colobine monkey, Dolichopithecus ruscinensis7
Geometric morphometric variability in the supraorbital and orbital region of Middle Pleistocene hominins: Implications for the taxonomy and evolution of later Homo7
Contingency rules7
Relative leg-to-arm skeletal strength proportions in orangutans by species and sex6
Humanlike manual activities in Australopithecus6
Comparing the Boxgrove and Atapuerca (Sima de los Huesos) human fossils: Do they represent distinct paleodemes?6
A new chronological framework for Chuandong Cave and its implications for the appearance of modern humans in southern China6
Revising the oldest Oldowan: Updated optimal linear estimation models and the impact of Nyayanga (Kenya)6
Evidence for the smallest fossil Pongo in southern China6
Modern African ecosystems as landscape-scale analogues for reconstructing woody cover and early hominin environments6
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Sex estimation of the adult Neandertal Regourdou 1 (Montignac, France): Implications for sexing human fossil remains6
A comparative study of the Early Pleistocene carnivore guild from Dmanisi (Georgia)6
Paleoecological evidence for environmental specialization in Paranthropus boisei compared to early Homo6
The effect of bi-iliac breadth on core body temperature6
Postcranial evidence does not support habitual bipedalism in Sahelanthropus tchadensis: A reply to Daver et al. (2022)6
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JHE 50th Anniversary: The joys of technology5
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Fifty years of paleoanthropology in Journal of Human Evolution: Historical perspectives and future directions5
Estimation of the upper diaphragm in KNM-WT 15000 (Homo erectus s.l.) and Kebara 2 (Homo neanderthalensis) using a Homo sapiens model5
Investigating the co-occurrence of Neanderthals and modern humans in Belgium through direct radiocarbon dating of bone implements5
Covariation between the cranium and the cervical vertebrae in hominids5
Corrigendum to “Body mass estimation from footprint size in hominins” [Journal of Human Evolution 156 (2021)102997]5
Hypoconulid loss in cercopithecins: Functional and developmental considerations5
Divergent otolithic systems in the inner ear of Paranthropus robustus and Australopithecus africanus5
No scientific evidence that Homo naledi buried their dead and produced rock art5
Total evidence phylogeny of platyrrhine primates and a comparison of undated and tip-dating approaches4
Aurignacian groups at Isturitz (France) adapted to a shifting environment upon their arrival in Western Europe ∼42,000 years ago4
New modern and Pleistocene fossil micromammal assemblages from Swartkrans, South Africa: Paleobiodiversity, taphonomic, and environmental context4
Additional analyses of stem catarrhine and hominoid dental morphology support Kapi ramnagarensis as a stem hylobatid4
Unique nasal turbinal morphology reveals Homunculus patagonicus functionally converged on modern platyrrhine olfactory sensitivity4
New Oldowan locality Sare-Abururu (ca. 1.7 Ma) provides evidence of diverse hominin behaviors on the Homa Peninsula, Kenya4
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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]4
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 Farm4
A fresh look at an iconic human fossil: Virtual reconstruction of the KNM-WT 15000 cranium4
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
Functional and behavioral variation in intrinsic hand and foot digit proportions in primates4
JHE 50th anniversary: What does a journal owe its discipline?4
A cranial injury from the earliest Gravettian at the Cro-Magnon rock shelter (Vézère Valley, Dordogne, southwest France)4
A new species of fossil guenon (Cercopithecini, Cercopithecidae) from the Early Pleistocene Lower Ngaloba Beds, Laetoli, Tanzania4
Variability in energy expenditure is much greater in males than females4
Reappraisal of the chronology of Orgnac 3 Lower-to-Middle Paleolithic site (Ardèche, France), a regional key sequence for the Middle Pleistocene of southern France4
Traces of dietary patterns in saliva of hominids: Profiling salivary amino acid fingerprints in great apes and humans4
Evaluating landscape knowledge and lithic resource selection at the French Middle Paleolithic site of the Bau de l'Aubesier4
Neanderthal mobility over very long distances: The case of El Castillo cave (northern Spain) and the ‘Vasconian’ Mousterian4
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Charles Kimberlin (Bob) Brain (1931–2023): Scientist of consequence, man of quality3
The game of models: Dietary reconstruction in human evolution3
Evidence for the latest fossil Pongo in southern China3
Ilium morphological variation during growth in forager populations3
Implications of outgroup selection in the phylogenetic inference of hominoids and fossil hominins3
Phylogenetic analysis of Middle-Late Miocene apes3
Morphological integration of the hominoid postcranium3
New insights into the diversity of strepsirrhine primates from the late early–early middle Eocene of North Africa (Algeria and Tunisia)3
Phylogeny and paleobiogeography of the enigmatic North American primate Ekgmowechashala illuminated by new fossils from Nebraska (USA) and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (China)3
The Western European Acheulean: Reading variability at a regional scale3
Early Pleistocene hominin subsistence behaviors in South Africa: Evidence from the hominin-bearing deposit of Cooper's D (Bloubank Valley, South Africa)3
Three-dimensional geometric morphometric analysis of the bony labyrinth of Xujiayao 63
New analyses of the Ardipithecus ramidus foot provide additional evidence of its African ape–like affinities: A reply to3
Continuity and innovation in the Late Acheulian: Technological and functional analysis of scrapers from Jaljulia, Southern Levant (500–300 ka)3
Estimating ancestral ranges and biogeographical processes in early hominins3
Corrigendum to “New fossils of Australopithecus anamensis from Kanapoi, West Turkana, Kenya (2012–2015)” [Journal of Human Evolution 140 (2020) 102368]3
Domestic spaces as crucibles of Paleolithic culture: An archaeological perspective3
Behavioral and phylogenetic correlates of limb length proportions in extant apes and monkeys: Implications for interpreting hominin fossils3
Diverse bone-calcium isotope compositions in Neandertals suggest different dietary strategies3
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Persistent predators: Zooarchaeological evidence for specialized horse hunting at Schöningen 13II-43
Respect for males amid suppression of females: Selective use of aggression and fitness correlates in the male-dominated society of hamadryas baboons3
A close-up at the paleoecology of the most western gelada relatives: Insights from dental microwear texture analysis3
Small mammals (Insectivora, Rodentia, Lagomorpha) from the Early Pleistocene hominin-bearing site of Dmanisi (Georgia)3
JHE 50th Anniversary: The Early Years of JHE3
Tracking the emergence of an organized use of space: A direct comparison of the spatial patterning within Middle and Upper Paleolithic open-air sites3
Knuckle-walking in Sahelanthropus? Locomotor inferences from the ulnae of fossil hominins and other hominoids3
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Examining the relationship between pelvic shape and numbers of lumbar vertebrae in anthropoid primates3
Shanidar 3 ‘rings the bell’: Virtual ribcage reconstruction and its implications for understanding the Neanderthal bauplan3
The relative limb size of Homo naledi3
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Biomechanical and taxonomic diversity in the Early Pleistocene in East Africa: Structural analysis of a recently discovered femur shaft from Olduvai Gorge (bed I)3
Additional isolated hominin canine tooth from Kanapoi, Kenya3
Comparing walking and running in persistence hunting3
Morphological integration in the hominid midfoot2
Functional morphological integration related to feeding biomechanics in the hominine skull2
Estimates of absolute crown strength and bite force in the lower postcanine dentition of Gigantopithecus blacki2
Synanthropy of the Isturitz foxes during the Aurignacian is not proven: a reply to Hussain and Baumann (2025)2
The hominin teeth from the late Middle Pleistocene Hualongdong site, China2
The radial head of the Middle Miocene ape Nacholapithecus kerioi: Morphometric affinities, locomotor inferences, and implications for the evolution of the hominoid humeroradial joint2
Palaeoecology of the Pliocene large carnivore guild at Hadar, Lower Awash Valley, Ethiopia2
Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) grouping patterns in an open and dry savanna landscape, Issa Valley, western Tanzania2
The shape of technology to come: An examination of evolutionary relationships between bifacial and core technologies at the Lower-Middle Palaeolithic boundary across regions in Eurasia2
Ecospaces of the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition: The archaeofaunal record of the Iberian Peninsula2
Facial morphologies of Middle Pleistocene Europe: Morphological mosaicism and the evolution of Homo neanderthalensis2
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Introduction to special issue “Humans in transition: The occupation of Western Europe, 600–400 Ka”2
Seasonality and Oldowan behavioral variability in East Africa2
Cochlear morphology of Indonesian Homo erectus from Sangiran2
Comparative description and taxonomic affinity of 3.7-million-year-old hominin mandibles from Woranso-Mille (Ethiopia)2
Flake tools in the European Lower Paleolithic: A case study from MIS 9 Britain2
Reconstructing Neanderthal diet: The case for carbohydrates2
Consumption of underground storage organs is associated with improved energetic status in a graminivorous primate2
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Reassessment of the human mandible from Banyoles (Girona, Spain)2
The influence of climate and population structure on East Asian skeletal morphology2
Investigating the internal structure of the suprainiac fossa in Xuchang 22
Reconstruction of the locomotor repertoire of early primates in the light of astragalar and calcaneal shape2
Geometric morphometric analysis of the bony labyrinth of the Sima de los Huesos hominins2
Deciphering the correlated evolutionary responses of the hands and feet in modern humans2
A new look at Laccopithecus robustus from the Late Miocene of China: Anatomy, systematics, and paleobiology2
First record of Macaca (Cercopithecidae, Primates) in the Middle Pleistocene of Greece2
The anatomy of the hindlimb of Theropithecus brumpti (Cercopithecidae, Papionini): Morphofunctional implications2
Middle Pleistocene Pongo from Ganxian Cave in southern China with implications for understanding dental size evolution in orangutans2
Taxonomic attribution of the KNM-ER 1500 partial skeleton from the Burgi Member of the Koobi Fora Formation, Kenya2
William Howard Kimbel (1954–2022)2
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