| An algebraic account of the american kinship terminology [and comments and reply] DW Read, J Atkins, IR Buchler, M Fischer, G De Meur, E Lally, B Holbrook, ... Current Anthropology 25 (4), 417-449, 1984 | 240 | 1984 |
| What is kinship? DW Read | 190 | 2000 |
| Kinship theory: A paradigm shift DW Read Ethnology, 329-364, 2007 | 187 | 2007 |
| Working memory: A cognitive limit to non-human primate recursive thinking prior to hominid evolution DW Read Evolutionary Psychology 6 (4), 147470490800600413, 2008 | 162 | 2008 |
| From population to organization thinking D Lane, R Maxfield, D Read, S van der Leeuw Complexity perspectives in innovation and social change, 11-42, 2009 | 158 | 2009 |
| Population growth, carrying capacity, and conflict DW Read, SA LeBlanc Current anthropology 44 (1), 59-85, 2003 | 144 | 2003 |
| Artifact classification: a conceptual and methodological approach DW Read Routledge, 2016 | 142 | 2016 |
| Tasmanian knowledge and skill: maladaptive imitation or adequate technology? D Read American Antiquity 71 (1), 164-184, 2006 | 139 | 2006 |
| KAES: An expert system for the algebraic analysis of kinship terminologies DW Read, C Behrens Journal of Quantitative Anthropology 2 (4), 353-393, 1990 | 131 | 1990 |
| Formal analysis of kinship terminologies and its relationship to what constitutes kinship DW Read Anthropological theory 1 (2), 239-267, 2001 | 113 | 2001 |
| How culture makes us human: primate social evolution and the formation of human societies DW Read Routledge, 2016 | 109 | 2016 |
| A new approach to forming a typology of kinship terminology systems: From Morgan and Murdock to the present D Read Structure and Dynamics 6 (1), 2013 | 102 | 2013 |
| The conceptual foundation of human society and thought: Anthropology on a new plane M Leaf, D Read Lexington Books.[DWR], 2012 | 102 | 2012 |
| The innovation innovation D Read, D Lane, S Van der Leeuw Complexity perspectives in innovation and social change, 43-84, 2009 | 101 | 2009 |
| Some observations on resilience and robustness in human systems D Read Cybernetics and Systems: An International Journal 36 (8), 773-802, 2005 | 99 | 2005 |
| An interaction model for resource implement complexity based on risk and number of annual moves D Read American antiquity 73 (4), 599-625, 2008 | 97 | 2008 |
| Numerical taxonomy, R-mode factor analysis, and archaeological classification AL Christenson, DW Read American Antiquity 42 (2), 163-179, 1977 | 97 | 1977 |
| Biology is only part of the story… D Read, S Van Der Leeuw Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 363 …, 2008 | 95 | 2008 |
| An evolutionary developmental approach to cultural evolution C Andersson, A Törnberg, P Törnberg Current anthropology 55 (2), 154-174, 2014 | 94 | 2014 |
| Human thought and social organization: Anthropology on a new plane MJ Leaf, D Read Lexington Books, 2012 | 91 | 2012 |
