| The evolution of inequality SM Mattison, EA Smith, MK Shenk, EE Cochrane Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews 25 (4), 184-199, 2016 | 198 | 2016 |
| Evolutionary Contributions to Solving the “Matrilineal Puzzle”: A Test of Holden, Sear, and Mace’s Model () SM Mattison Human nature 22 (1-2), 64-88, 2011 | 104 | 2011 |
| Patterns of paternal investment predict cross-cultural variation in jealous response BA Scelza, SP Prall, T Blumenfield, AN Crittenden, M Gurven, M Kline, ... Nature human behaviour 4 (1), 20-26, 2020 | 103 | 2020 |
| Paternal Investment and the Positive Effects of Fathers among the Matrilineal Mosuo of Southwest China SM Mattison, B Scelza, T Blumenfield American Anthropologist 116 (3), 591-610, 2014 | 102 | 2014 |
| Economic Impacts of Tourism and Erosion of the Visiting System Among the Mosuo of Lugu Lake SM Mattison The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 11 (2), 159-176, 2010 | 89 | 2010 |
| When to neuter dogs and cats: a survey of New York state veterinarians’ practices and beliefs CV Spain, JM Scarlett, SM Cully Journal of the American Animal Hospital Association 38 (5), 482-488, 2002 | 70 | 2002 |
| The Rebirth of Kinship: Evolutionary and Quantitative Approaches in the Revitalization of a Dying Field () MK Shenk, SM Mattison Human nature 22 (1-2), 1-15, 2011 | 64 | 2011 |
| Modernizing evolutionary anthropology: Introduction to the special issue SM Mattison, R Sear Human Nature 27, 335-350, 2016 | 48 | 2016 |
| Kinship Ties Across the Lifespan in Human Communities J Koster, D Lukas, D Nolin, EA Power, A Alvergne, R Mace, CT Ross, ... SocArXiv. March 19, 2019 | 42 | 2019 |
| The expendable male hypothesis SM Mattison, RJ Quinlan, D Hare Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 374 (1780), 20180080, 2019 | 36 | 2019 |
| Offspring sex preferences among patrilineal and matrilineal Mosuo in Southwest China revealed by differences in parity progression SM Mattison, B Beheim, B Chak, P Buston Royal Society Open Science 3 (9), 160526, 2016 | 33 | 2016 |
| The evolution of female-biased kinship in humans and other mammals SM Mattison, MK Shenk, ME Thompson, M Borgerhoff Mulder, L Fortunato Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 374 (1780), 20190007, 2019 | 31 | 2019 |
| Matriliny reverses gender disparities in inflammation and hypertension among the Mosuo of China AZ Reynolds, K Wander, CY Sum, M Su, M Emery Thompson, PL Hooper, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117 (48), 30324-30327, 2020 | 26 | 2020 |
| Evolutionary demography of age at last birth: integrating approaches from human behavioural ecology and cultural evolution S Mattison, C Moya, A Reynolds, MC Towner Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 373 …, 2018 | 25 | 2018 |
| Self-assemblage formation in a social insect: the protective curtain of a honey bee swarm SM Cully, TD Seeley Insectes sociaux 51 (4), 317-324, 2004 | 25 | 2004 |
| Gender Differences in Social Networks Based on Prevailing Kinship Norms in the Mosuo of China SM Mattison, NG MacLaren, R Liu, AZ Reynolds, GD Baca, PM Mattison, ... Social Sciences 10 (7), 253, 2021 | 24 | 2021 |
| The evolutionary ecology of early weaning in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania K Wander, SM Mattison Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 280 (1768), 20131359, 2013 | 24 | 2013 |
| Reproductive inequality in humans and other mammals CT Ross, PL Hooper, JE Smith, AV Jaeggi, EA Smith, S Gavrilets, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120 (22), e2220124120, 2023 | 23 | 2023 |
| Matrilineal and matrilocal systems SM Mattison The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies, 1-6, 2016 | 21 | 2016 |
| Social support, nutrition and health among women in rural Bangladesh: complex tradeoffs in allocare, kin proximity and support network size MK Shenk, A Morse, SM Mattison, R Sear, N Alam, R Raqib, A Kumar, ... Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 376 (1827), 20200027, 2021 | 19 | 2021 |
Mary ShenkAssociate Professor of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State UniversityVerified email at psu.edu