| Cutmarks made by stone tools on bones from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania R Potts, P Shipman Nature 291 (5816), 577-580, 1981 | 874 | 1981 |
| Early hominid activities at olduvai: Foundations of human behaviour R Potts Routledge, 2017 | 742 | 2017 |
| Variability selection in hominid evolution R Potts Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews: Issues, News, and …, 1998 | 723 | 1998 |
| Environmental hypotheses of hominin evolution R Potts American Journal of Physical Anthropology: The Official Publication of the …, 1998 | 650 | 1998 |
| The formation of human populations in South and Central Asia VM Narasimhan, N Patterson, P Moorjani, N Rohland, R Bernardos, ... Science 365 (6457), eaat7487, 2019 | 638 | 2019 |
| Terrestrial ecosystems through time: evolutionary paleoecology of terrestrial plants and animals AK Behrensmeyer University of Chicago Press, 1992 | 603 | 1992 |
| Mid-Pleistocene Acheulean-like stone technology of the Bose basin, South China H Yamei, R Potts, Y Baoyin, G Zhengtang, A Deino, W Wei, J Clark, ... science 287 (5458), 1622-1626, 2000 | 583 | 2000 |
| Evolution of early Homo: An integrated biological perspective SC Antón, R Potts, LC Aiello science 345 (6192), 1236828, 2014 | 544 | 2014 |
| New evidence on the earliest human presence at high northern latitudes in northeast Asia RX Zhu, R Potts, F Xie, KA Hoffman, CL Deng, CD Shi, YX Pan, HQ Wang, ... nature 431 (7008), 559-562, 2004 | 470 | 2004 |
| Humanity's descent: the consequences of ecological instability R Potts (No Title), 1996 | 417 | 1996 |
| Single‐crystal 40Ar/39Ar dating of the Olorgesailie Formation, southern Kenya Rift A Deino, R Potts Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 95 (B6), 8453-8470, 1990 | 398 | 1990 |
| Earliest presence of humans in northeast Asia RX Zhu, KA Hoffman, R Potts, CL Deng, YX Pan, B Guo, CD Shi, ZT Guo, ... nature 413 (6854), 413-417, 2001 | 388 | 2001 |
| Evolution and climate variability R Potts Science 273 (5277), 922-923, 1996 | 355 | 1996 |
| Hominin evolution in settings of strong environmental variability R Potts Quaternary Science Reviews 73, 1-13, 2013 | 349 | 2013 |
| Late Pliocene faunal turnover in the Turkana basin, Kenya and Ethiopia AK Behrensmeyer, NE Todd, R Potts, GE McBrinn Science 278 (5343), 1589-1594, 1997 | 326 | 1997 |
| Home Bases and Early Hominids: Reevaluation of the fossil record at Olduvai Gorge suggests that the concentrations of bones and stone tools do not represent fully formed … R Potts American Scientist 72 (4), 338-347, 1984 | 325 | 1984 |
| Long-distance stone transport and pigment use in the earliest Middle Stone Age AS Brooks, JE Yellen, R Potts, AK Behrensmeyer, AL Deino, DE Leslie, ... Science 360 (6384), 90-94, 2018 | 319 | 2018 |
| Paleolandscape variation and Early Pleistocene hominid activities: members 1 and 7, Olorgesailie Formation, Kenya R Potts, AK Behrensmeyer, P Ditchfield Journal of human evolution 37 (5), 747-788, 1999 | 283 | 1999 |
| Earliest archaeological evidence of persistent hominin carnivory JV Ferraro, TW Plummer, BL Pobiner, JS Oliver, LC Bishop, DR Braun, ... PloS one 8 (4), e62174, 2013 | 254 | 2013 |
| High-resolution vegetation and climate change associated with Pliocene Australopithecus afarensis R Bonnefille, R Potts, F Chalié, D Jolly, O Peyron Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 101 (33), 12125-12129, 2004 | 243 | 2004 |
