| Food, foragers, and folklore: The role of narrative in human subsistence MS Sugiyama Evolution and Human Behavior 22 (4), 221-240, 2001 | 290 | 2001 |
| Reverse-engineering narrative: Evidence of special design MS Sugiyama The literary animal: Evolution and the nature of narrative, 177-96, 2005 | 174 | 2005 |
| Narrative theory and function: Why evolution matters MS Sugiyama Philosophy and literature 25 (2), 233-250, 2001 | 167 | 2001 |
| On the origins of narrative MS Sugiyama Human nature 7 (4), 403, 1996 | 151 | 1996 |
| Social roles, prestige, and health risk LS Sugiyama, MS Sugiyama Human Nature 14 (2), 165-190, 2003 | 102 | 2003 |
| The forager oral tradition and the evolution of prolonged juvenility M Scalise Sugiyama Frontiers in psychology 2, 133, 2011 | 55 | 2011 |
| Cultural variation is part of human nature MS Sugiyama Human nature 14 (4), 383-396, 2003 | 54 | 2003 |
| Oral Storytelling as Evidence of Pedagogy in Forager Societies M Scalise Sugiyama Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 | 49 | 2017 |
| New science, old myth: An evolutionary critique of the Oedipal paradigm MS Sugiyama Mosaic: a Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, 121-136, 2001 | 40 | 2001 |
| Lions and Tigers and Bears: Predators as a Folklore Universal M Scalise Sugiyama Anthropology and Social History: Heuristics in the Study of Literature, 319-331, 2006 | 34* | 2006 |
| Fitness costs of warfare for women MS Sugiyama Human nature 25 (4), 476-495, 2014 | 21 | 2014 |
| Of woman bondage: The eroticism of feet in The House on Mango Street MS Sugiyama Sandra Cisneros's the House on Mango Street 41 (1), 97, 2009 | 21 | 2009 |
| The Trickster Genre and the Free Rider Problem M Scalise Sugiyama Ometeca 12, 24-42, 2008 | 19* | 2008 |
| What's love got to do with it? An evolutionary analysis of" The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber." MS Sugiyama The Hemingway Review 15 (2), 15-33, 1996 | 19 | 1996 |
| Once the child is lost he dies’: Monster stories vis-a-vis the problem of errant children MS Sugiyama, LS Sugiyama, E Slingerland, M Collard Creating consilience: Integrating the sciences and the humanities, 351-371, 2011 | 18 | 2011 |
| A frugal (re) past: Use of oral tradition to buffer foraging risk MS Sugiyama, L Sugiyama Studies in the Literary Imagination 42 (2), 15-41, 2009 | 18 | 2009 |
| Predation, Narration, and Adaptation:" Little Red Riding Hood" Revisited MS Sugiyama Interdisciplinary Literary Studies 5 (2), 110-129, 2004 | 18 | 2004 |
| Coalitional play fighting and the evolution of coalitional intergroup aggression MS Sugiyama, M Mendoza, F White, L Sugiyama Human nature 29 (3), 219-244, 2018 | 12 | 2018 |
| Information is the Stuff of Narrative MS Sugiyama Style 42 (2-3), 254-260, 2008 | 10 | 2008 |
| Cultural relativism in the bush: Towards a theory of narrative universals MS Sugiyama Human Nature 14, 2003 | 10 | 2003 |
