Journal of Human Evolution

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Human Evolution is 8. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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Aspects of molar form and dietary proclivities of African colobines36
Acetabular orientation, pelvic shape, and the evolution of hominin bipedality35
The foot of the human–chimpanzee last common ancestor was not African ape-like: A response to Prang (2019)34
On the age of Ain Hanech Oldowan locality (Algeria): First numerical dating results32
Morphological disparity and evolutionary transformations in the primate hyoid apparatus32
The human remains of Final Gravettian age from the Reclau Viver and Mollet III caves (Serinyà, NE Iberian Peninsula)26
Sedimentary ancient DNA metabarcoding as a tool for assessing prehistoric plant use at the Upper Paleolithic cave site Aghitu-3, Armenia25
Paleoenvironments represented by the sediments of the Early Pliocene Mursi Formation, Omo Valley, Ethiopia25
A fistful of fossils: The rise and fall of the Orce Man and the politics of paleoanthropological science24
Calcar femorale variation in extant and fossil hominids: Implications for identifying bipedal locomotion in fossil hominins23
JHE 50th anniversary: Generosity23
One journal to bring them all, and in the fossils bind them23
Femoral neck cortical bone distribution in Nacholapithecus from the Middle Miocene of Kenya23
The macroevolutionary dynamics of activity pattern in mammals: Primates in context22
The Neanderthal cervical spine revisited22
Eastern African environmental variation and its role in the evolution and cultural change of Homo over the last 1 million years22
Exploring the lack of articular ends at the Middle Pleistocene site of Qesem Cave, Israel22
Ecomorphology in Kenya's Koobi Fora Formation: Reconstructing Early Pleistocene hominin paleoenvironments with 3D geometric morphometric analyses of bovid metapodials21
Virtual reconstruction and geometric morphometric analysis of the Kocabaş hominin fossil from Turkey: Implications for taxonomy and evolutionary significance21
Late Acheulean occupations at Montagu Cave and the pattern of Middle Pleistocene behavioral change in Western Cape, southern Africa21
Enamel thickness in the deciduous postcanine dentition of fossil and extant Pongo21
New insights into the Neanderthal pelvis morphology based on a partial os coxae from El Sidrón (Asturias, Spain)21
Sex-biased sampling may influence Homo naledi tooth size variation21
Molar enamel–dentine junction shape of Pliobates cataloniae and other Iberian pliopithecoids20
Early evidence for bear exploitation during MIS 9 from the site of Schöningen 12 (Germany)20
Early euprimates already had a diverse locomotor repertoire: Evidence from ankle bone morphology20
An updated analysis of hominin phylogeny with an emphasis on re-evaluating the phylogenetic relationships of Australopithecus sediba20
Introduction to special issue: In search for modern humans and the Early Upper Paleolithic at Manot Cave, Western Galilee, Israel20
Corrigendum to “The effect of bi-iliac breadth on core body temperature” [J. Hum. Evol. 195 (2024) 103580]19
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The effects of carnivore diversity on scavenging opportunities and hominin range expansion during Out of Africa I17
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Challenges and perspectives on functional interpretations of australopith postcrania and the reconstruction of hominin locomotion17
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 16
The earliest hylobatid from the Late Miocene of China16
Karst terrain in the western upper Galilee, Israel: Speleogenesis, hydrogeology and human preference of Manot Cave16
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)16
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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Phylogenetic comparative analysis of suspensory adaptations in primates16
The fauna from Mughr el-Hamamah, Jordan: Insights on human hunting behavior during the Early Upper Paleolithic16
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Distinguishing primate taxa with enamel incremental variables16
Micro-computed tomography unveils anatomy of the oldest known plesiadapiform cranium16
JHE: The case for preserving a legacy journal and its community16
A phylogenetic perspective on the evolution of early hominin foot morphology15
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 environs15
Trabecular bone volume fraction in Holocene and Late Pleistocene humans14
A cadaveric study of wrist-joint moments in chimpanzees and orangutans with implications for the evolution of knuckle-walking14
Direct cosmogenic nuclide isochron burial dating of early Acheulian stone tools at the T69 Complex (FLK West, Olduvai Bed II, Tanzania)14
Jaw-muscle fiber architecture and skull form facilitate relatively wide jaw gapes in male cercopithecoid monkeys14
Two Late Pleistocene human femora from Trinil, Indonesia: Implications for body size and behavior in Southeast Asia14
Before the Acheulean: The emergence of bifacial shaping at Kokiselei 6 (1.8 Ma), West Turkana, Kenya13
A three-dimensional geometric morphometric study of Miocene ape lumbar vertebrae, with implications for hominoid locomotor evolution13
Adaptations for bipedal walking: Musculoskeletal structure and three-dimensional joint mechanics of humans and bipedal chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)13
An ancient cranium from Dmanisi: Evidence for interpersonal violence, disease, and possible predation by carnivores on Early Pleistocene Homo13
Biomechanical correlates of zygomaxillary-surface shape in papionin primates and the effects of hard-object feeding on mangabey facial form13
Serial reconstruction of Hominini manual phalanges13
Early Upper Paleolithic cultural variability in the Southern Levant: New evidence from Nahal Rahaf 2 Rockshelter, Judean Desert, Israel13
Evolutionary trend in dental size in fossil orangutans from the Pleistocene of Chongzuo, Guangxi, southern China13
First articulating os coxae, femur, and tibia of a small adult Paranthropus robustus from Member 1 (Hanging Remnant) of the Swartkrans Formation, South Africa12
Hominin nomenclature and the importance of information systems for managing complexity in paleoanthropology12
Morphological variation of the maxilla in modern humans and African apes12
Three-dimensional geometric morphometric study of the Xuchang 2 cranium12
Reconstructing the provenance of the hominin fossils from Trinil (Java, Indonesia) through an integrated analysis of the historical and recent excavations11
Initial Upper Paleolithic bone technology and personal ornaments at Bacho Kiro Cave (Bulgaria)11
Unexpected variation of human molar size patterns11
A chimpanzee enamel-diet δ13C enrichment factor and a refined enamel sampling strategy: Implications for dietary reconstructions11
Description and taxonomic assessment of fossil Cercopithecidae from the Pliocene Galili Formation (Ethiopia)11
An ape partial postcranial skeleton (KNM-NP 64631) from the Middle Miocene of Napudet, northern Kenya11
Morphological affinities of a fossil ulna (KNM-WS 65401) from Buluk, Kenya11
A Late Middle Pleistocene human tooth from the Luonan Basin (Shaanxi, China)10
Ulnar morphology of Pliobates cataloniae (Pliopithecoidea: Crouzeliidae): Insights into catarrhine locomotor diversity and forelimb evolution10
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 Evolution10
Portable x-ray fluorescence spectroscopy geochemical sourcing of Miocene primate fossils from Kenya9
Investigating foundations for hominin fire exploitation: Savanna-dwelling chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in fire-altered landscapes9
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Personal ornaments from Hayonim and Manot caves (Israel) hint at symbolic ties between the Levantine and the European Aurignacian9
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
Using BayesModelS to provide Bayesian- and phylogenetically-informed primate body mass predictions9
The pectoral girdle of StW 573 (‘Little Foot’) and its implications for shoulder evolution in the Hominina9
The taxonomic attribution of African hominin postcrania from the Miocene through the Pleistocene: Associations and assumptions9
Effect of binocular visual cue availability on fruit and insect grasping performance in two cheirogaleids: Implications for primate origins hypotheses9
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Variations by degrees: Western European paleoenvironmental fluctuations across MIS 13–119
New remains of the Miocene great ape Anoiapithecus brevirostris from Abocador de Can Mata8
Contingency rules8
Early Pleistocene hominin teeth from Gongwangling of Lantian, Central China8
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The Grotte du Bison Neandertals (Arcy-sur-Cure, France)8
Dental microwear of Neogene cercopithecoids from the Turkana Basin, Kenya8
World variation in three-rooted lower second molars and implications for the hominin fossil record8
Stone selection by wild chimpanzees shares patterns with Oldowan hominins8
Retrodeformation and functional anatomy of a cranial thoracic vertebra in Nacholapithecus kerioi8
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 Africa8
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Geometric morphometric variability in the supraorbital and orbital region of Middle Pleistocene hominins: Implications for the taxonomy and evolution of later Homo8
Structural properties of the Late Pleistocene Liujiang femoral diaphyses from southern China8
Mosaic habitats at Woranso-Mille (Ethiopia) during the Pliocene and implications for Australopithecus paleoecology and taxonomic diversity8
Preliminary observations on the Levantine Aurignacian sequence of Manot Cave: Cultural affiliations and regional perspectives8
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