Ian Tattersall

8.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
186 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

Ian Tattersall is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Paleontology and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ian Tattersall has authored 186 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Social Psychology, 53 papers in Paleontology and 47 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Ian Tattersall's work include Primate Behavior and Ecology (61 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (48 papers) and Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (46 papers). Ian Tattersall is often cited by papers focused on Primate Behavior and Ecology (61 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (48 papers) and Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (46 papers). Ian Tattersall collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Madagascar. Ian Tattersall's co-authors include Jeffrey H. Schwartz, Winfried Henke, Robert W. Sussman, Niles Eldredge, Eric Delson, Robert C. Berwick, Michael A. Hauser, Alison S. Brooks, John Van Couvering and Noam Chomsky and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Ian Tattersall

179 papers receiving 4.8k citations

Hit Papers

The Natural History of Madagascar 2004 2026 2011 2018 2004 200 400 600

Peers

Ian Tattersall
Comparison fields: 5 of 165
  • Social Psychology 2.2k
  • Paleontology 1.5k
  • Anthropology 1.5k
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 1.2k
  • Global and Planetary Change 839
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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The Thinking Primate: Establishing a Context for the Emergence of Modern Human Cognition 1
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Do plants have brains?: Some biologists argue that "neurobiology" has been too narrowly defined.
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Theory and technology in the future of paleoanthropology
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Principles, methods and approaches
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A review of the Pleistocene hominoid fauna of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (excluding Hylobatidae). Anthropological papers of the AMNH ; no. 76
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Craniodental morphology of early hominids (genera australopithecus, paranthropus, orrorin) and overview
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Craniodental morphology of genus Homo (Africa and Asia)
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Terminology and craniodental morphology of genus Homo (Europe)
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Systematics of Humankind. Palma 2000: an international working group on systematics in human paleontology
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A mammoth mystery.
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A Hundred Years of Missing Links: So many fossil hominids have been discovered since 1900 that they now constitute an embarrassment of riches.
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Classification and phylogeny in human evolution
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The origin of the human capacity (James Arthur lecture on the evolution of the human brain, no. 68, 1998).
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The elephant wars
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Phylogeny and nomenclature in the "Lemur-group" of Malagasy strepsirhine primates
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A review of the European primate genus Anchomomys and some allied forms
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A mandible of Indraloris Primates, Lorisidae from the Miocene of India
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