| Signaling theory, strategic interaction, and symbolic capital R Bliege Bird, EA Smith Current Anthropology 46 (2), 221-248, 2005 | 1396 | 2005 |
| Turtle hunting and tombstone opening: Public generosity as costly signaling EA Smith, RLB Bird Evolution and human behavior 21 (4), 245-261, 2000 | 753 | 2000 |
| Showing off, handicap signaling, and the evolution of men's work K Hawkes, R Bliege Bird Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews: Issues, News, and …, 2002 | 699 | 2002 |
| People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years EC Ellis, N Gauthier, K Klein Goldewijk, R Bliege Bird, N Boivin, S Díaz, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (17), e2023483118, 2021 | 679 | 2021 |
| The hunting handicap: costly signaling in human foraging strategies R Bliege Bird, E Smith, DW Bird Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 50, 9-19, 2001 | 613 | 2001 |
| The “fire stick farming” hypothesis: Australian Aboriginal foraging strategies, biodiversity, and anthropogenic fire mosaics R Bliege Bird, DW Bird, BF Codding, CH Parker, JH Jones Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105 (39), 14796-14801, 2008 | 566 | 2008 |
| Cooperation and conflict: The behavioral ecology of the sexual division of labor R Bird Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews: Issues, News, and …, 1999 | 384 | 1999 |
| Delayed reciprocity and tolerated theft: the behavioral ecology of food-sharing strategies R Bliege Bird, DW Bird Current anthropology 38 (1), 49-78, 1997 | 378 | 1997 |
| The benefits of costly signaling: Meriam turtle hunters EA Smith, RB Bird, DW Bird Behavioral Ecology 14 (1), 116-126, 2003 | 363 | 2003 |
| The ethnoarchaeology of juvenile foragers: shellfishing strategies among Meriam children DW Bird, RB Bird Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 19 (4), 461-476, 2000 | 269 | 2000 |
| Contemporary shellfish gathering strategies among the Meriam of the Torres Strait Islands, Australia: testing predictions of a central place foraging model DW Bird, RLB Bird Journal of Archaeological Science 24 (1), 39-63, 1997 | 255 | 1997 |
| Aboriginal burning regimes and hunting strategies in Australia’s Western Desert DW Bird, RB Bird, CH Parker Human ecology 33, 443-464, 2005 | 253 | 2005 |
| Risk and reciprocity in Meriam food sharing RB Bird, DW Bird, EA Smith, GC Kushnick Evolution and Human Behavior 23 (4), 297-321, 2002 | 241 | 2002 |
| Costly signaling and cooperative behavior EA Smith, RB Bird | 235 | 2005 |
| Why women hunt: risk and contemporary foraging in a Western Desert aboriginal community R Bliege Bird, DW Bird Current Anthropology 49 (4), 655-693, 2008 | 196 | 2008 |
| In pursuit of mobile prey: Martu hunting strategies and archaeofaunal interpretation DW Bird, RB Bird, BF Codding American Antiquity 74 (1), 3-29, 2009 | 194 | 2009 |
| Constraints of knowing or constraints of growing? Fishing and collecting by the children of Mer R Bliege Bird, DW Bird Human Nature 13 (2), 239-267, 2002 | 191 | 2002 |
| Children on the reef: Slow learning or strategic foraging? DW Bird, R Bliege Bird Human Nature 13 (2), 269-297, 2002 | 183 | 2002 |
| Aboriginal hunting buffers climate-driven fire-size variability in Australia’s spinifex grasslands R Bliege Bird, BF Codding, PG Kauhanen, DW Bird Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109 (26), 10287-10292, 2012 | 181 | 2012 |
| Variability in the organization and size of hunter-gatherer groups: Foragers do not live in small-scale societies DW Bird, RB Bird, BF Codding, DW Zeanah Journal of human evolution 131, 96-108, 2019 | 170 | 2019 |
Douglas BirdProfessor, Anthropology, Penn State UniversityVerified email at psu.edu