Selected Publications
Smith R.J.
2018 The continuing misuse of null hypothesis significance testing in biological anthropology. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 166: 236-245.
2016 Explanations for adaptations, just-so stories, and limitations on evidence in evolutionary biology. Evolutionary Anthropology 25: 276-287.
2016 Darwin, Freud, and the continuing misrepresentation of the primal horde. Current Anthropology 57: 838-843.
2009 Use and misuse of the reduced major axis for line-fitting. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 140:476-486.
2005 Species recognition in paleoanthropology: implications of small sample sizes. In: Interpreting the Past: Essays on Human, Primate, and Mammal Evolution in Honor of David Pilbeam (DE Lieberman, RJ Smith, and J Kelley, eds.). Boston, Brill Academic Publishers, pp. 207-219.
2005 Relative size versus controlling for size: interpretation of ratios in research on sexual dimorphism in the human corpus callosum. Current Anthropology 46: 249-273.
1999 Statistics of sexual size dimorphism. Journal of Human Evolution 36: 423-458.
1996 Biology and body size in human evolution. Current Anthropology 37:451-481.
Smith R.J. and Wood B.
2017 The principles and practice of human evolution research: are we asking questions that can be answered? Comptes Rendus Palevol 16: 670-679.
Smith R.J. and J.M. Cheverud
2002 Scaling of sexual dimorphism in body mass: a phylogenetic analysis of Rensch's Rule in primates. International Journal of Primatology 23:1095-1135.
Smith, R.J. and S.R. Leigh
1998 Sexual dimorphism in primate neonatal body mass. Journal of Human Evolution 34: 173-201.
Smith, R.J. and W.L. Jungers
1997 Body mass in comparative primatology. Journal of Human Evolution 32:523-559.