David Pilbeam

10.2k citations
95 papers · 5.8k indexed · 1 hit paper · h-index 43

Impact in

  • Paleontology top 0.1%
    • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Anthropology top 0.05%
    • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

Papers in

David Pilbeam

90 papers receiving 5.3k citations

Hit Papers

Size and Scaling in Human Evolution 1974 · 278 citations
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Peers

David Pilbeam
Comparison fields: 5 of 177
  • Paleontology 3.5k
  • Anthropology 2.3k
  • Social Psychology 2.3k
  • Developmental Biology 196
  • Archeology 547
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
#Work
1 20250
2
Total numbers of vertebrae clarify the ancestral vertebral formula of African apes and humans
20171
3 20169
4
One Hundred Years of Paleoanthropology
20169
5 200920
6 200918
7 2008159
8 20061
9 2005208
10 2005162
11 200448
12 200285
13
The geography of Neandertals and modern humans in Europe and the greater Mediterranean
2000152
14
HIGH MIOCENE SPECIES RICHNESS IN THE SIWALIKS OF PAKISTAN
199814
15
Australopithecus bahrelghazali, une nouvelle espèce d'Hominidé ancien de la région de Koro Toro (Tchad)
199686
16 1996151
17 1995174
18 199146
19 199044
20 197117

About David Pilbeam

David Pilbeam is a scholar working on Paleontology, Anthropology, Social Psychology, Geometry and Topology and Archeology, having authored 95 papers that have together received 5.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Evolution and Paleontology Studies (56 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (38 papers), Primate Behavior and Ecology (36 papers), Bat Biology and Ecology Studies (14 papers), Morphological variations and asymmetry (12 papers), Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (9 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (7 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (6 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Paleontology (3.5k citations), Anthropology (2.3k citations), Social Psychology (2.3k citations), Developmental Biology (196 citations) and Archeology (547 citations). David Pilbeam has collaborated with scholars based in United States, France and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include John C. Barry, Michèle E. Morgan, Stephen Jay Gould, Daniel E. Lieberman, Ε. L. Simons, Lawrence J. Flynn, Louis L. Jacobs, Anna K. Behrensmeyer, Michel Brunet and Richard W. Wrangham. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Journal of Human Evolution, Science, American Journal of Physical Anthropology and Comptes Rendus Palevol.

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