| Human evolution: taxonomy and paleobiology B Wood, BG Richmond The Journal of Anatomy 197 (1), 19-60, 2000 | 431 | 2000 |
| Origin of human bipedalism: the knuckle‐walking hypothesis revisited BG Richmond, DR Begun, DS Strait American Journal of Physical Anthropology: The Official Publication of the …, 2001 | 416 | 2001 |
| Early hominin diet included diverse terrestrial and aquatic animals 1.95 Ma in East Turkana, Kenya DR Braun, JWK Harris, NE Levin, JT McCoy, AIR Herries, MK Bamford, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107 (22), 10002-10007, 2010 | 387 | 2010 |
| Evidence that humans evolved from a knuckle-walking ancestor BG Richmond, DS Strait Nature 404 (6776), 382-385, 2000 | 351 | 2000 |
| Orrorin tugenensis femoral morphology and the evolution of hominin bipedalism BG Richmond, WL Jungers Science 319 (5870), 1662-1665, 2008 | 339 | 2008 |
| Finite element analysis in functional morphology BG Richmond, BW Wright, I Grosse, PC Dechow, CF Ross, MA Spencer, ... The Anatomical Record Part A: Discoveries in Molecular, Cellular, and …, 2005 | 334 | 2005 |
| Modeling elastic properties in finite‐element analysis: how much precision is needed to produce an accurate model? DS Strait, Q Wang, PC Dechow, CF Ross, BG Richmond, MA Spencer, ... The Anatomical Record Part A: Discoveries in Molecular, Cellular, and …, 2005 | 333 | 2005 |
| Early hominin foot morphology based on 1.5-million-year-old footprints from Ileret, Kenya MR Bennett, JWK Harris, BG Richmond, DR Braun, E Mbua, P Kiura, ... Science 323 (5918), 1197-1201, 2009 | 319 | 2009 |
| The feeding biomechanics and dietary ecology of Australopithecus africanus DS Strait, GW Weber, S Neubauer, J Chalk, BG Richmond, PW Lucas, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106 (7), 2124-2129, 2009 | 313 | 2009 |
| Older than the Oldowan? Rethinking the emergence of hominin tool use MA Panger, AS Brooks, BG Richmond, B Wood Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews: Issues, News, and …, 2002 | 306 | 2002 |
| Strong postcranial size dimorphism in Australopithecus afarensis: Results from two new resampling methods for multivariate data sets with missing data AD Gordon, DJ Green, BG Richmond American Journal of Physical Anthropology: The Official Publication of the …, 2008 | 277 | 2008 |
| Body mass estimates of hominin fossils and the evolution of human body size M Grabowski, KG Hatala, WL Jungers, BG Richmond Journal of Human Evolution 85, 75-93, 2015 | 219 | 2015 |
| Randomization procedures and sexual dimorphism in Australopithecus afarensis CA Lockwood, BG Richmond, WL Jungers, WH Kimbel Journal of Human Evolution 31 (6), 537-548, 1996 | 210* | 1996 |
| Size variation and sexual dimorphism in Australopithecus afarensis and living hominoids BG Richmond, WL Jungers Journal of Human Evolution 29 (3), 229-245, 1995 | 200 | 1995 |
| Recent origin of low trabecular bone density in modern humans H Chirchir, TL Kivell, CB Ruff, JJ Hublin, KJ Carlson, B Zipfel, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112 (2), 366-371, 2015 | 187 | 2015 |
| Modeling masticatory muscle force in finite element analysis: sensitivity analysis using principal coordinates analysis CF Ross, BA Patel, DE Slice, DS Strait, PC Dechow, BG Richmond, ... The Anatomical Record Part A: Discoveries in Molecular, Cellular, and …, 2005 | 184 | 2005 |
| Oligocene mammals from Ethiopia and faunal exchange between Afro-Arabia and Eurasia J Kappelman, D Tab Rasmussen, WJ Sanders, M Feseha, T Bown, ... Nature 426 (6966), 549-552, 2003 | 182 | 2003 |
| Early hominin limb proportions BG Richmond, LC Aiello, BA Wood Journal of Human Evolution 43 (4), 529-548, 2002 | 170 | 2002 |
| Variation in foot strike patterns during running among habitually barefoot populations KG Hatala, HL Dingwall, RE Wunderlich, BG Richmond PloS one 8 (1), e52548, 2013 | 169 | 2013 |
| Evolution and homologies of primate and modern human hand and forearm muscles, with notes on thumb movements and tool use R Diogo, BG Richmond, B Wood Journal of human evolution 63 (1), 64-78, 2012 | 134 | 2012 |
David StraitProfessor of Anthropology, Washington University in St. LouisVerified email at wustl.edu