| Policing stabilizes construction of social niches in primates JC Flack, M Girvan, FBM De Waal, DC Krakauer Nature 439 (7075), 426-429, 2006 | 870 | 2006 |
| Perspective: evolution and detection of genetic robustness JAGM De Visser, J Hermisson, GP Wagner, LA Meyers, ... Evolution 57 (9), 1959-1972, 2003 | 820 | 2003 |
| The evolution of language MA Nowak, DC Krakauer Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 96 (14), 8028-8033, 1999 | 778 | 1999 |
| Transitions from nonliving to living matter S Rasmussen, L Chen, D Deamer, DC Krakauer, NH Packard, PF Stadler, ... Science 303 (5660), 963-965, 2004 | 389 | 2004 |
| Redundancy, antiredundancy, and the robustness of genomes DC Krakauer, JB Plotkin Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99 (3), 1405-1409, 2002 | 324 | 2002 |
| The evolutionary language game MA Nowak, JB Plotkin, DC Krakauer Journal of theoretical biology 200 (2), 147-162, 1999 | 260 | 1999 |
| Polyspecificity of T cell and B cell receptor recognition KW Wucherpfennig, PM Allen, F Celada, IR Cohen, R De Boer, KC Garcia, ... Seminars in immunology 19 (4), 216-224, 2007 | 247 | 2007 |
| Groups confuse predators by exploiting perceptual bottlenecks: a connectionist model of the confusion effect DC Krakauer Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 36, 421-429, 1995 | 243 | 1995 |
| Social structure, robustness, and policing cost in a cognitively sophisticated species JC Flack, FBM De Waal, DC Krakauer The American Naturalist 165 (5), E126-E139, 2005 | 242 | 2005 |
| The debate over understanding in AI’s large language models M Mitchell, DC Krakauer Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120 (13), e2215907120, 2023 | 223 | 2023 |
| Mitochondria and germ-cell death DC Krakauer, A Mira Nature 400 (6740), 125-126, 1999 | 202 | 1999 |
| Robustness mechanisms in primate societies: a perturbation study JC Flack, DC Krakauer, FBM de Waal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 272 (1568), 1091-1099, 2005 | 197 | 2005 |
| An error limit for the evolution of language MA Nowak, DC Krakauer, A Dress Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences …, 1999 | 175 | 1999 |
| Quantitative patterns of stylistic influence in the evolution of literature JM Hughes, NJ Foti, DC Krakauer, DN Rockmore Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109 (20), 7682-7686, 2012 | 171 | 2012 |
| Stability and evolution of overlapping genes DC Krakauer Evolution 54 (3), 731-739, 2000 | 164 | 2000 |
| Spatial scales of desert locust gregarization M Collett, E Despland, SJ Simpson, DC Krakauer Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 95 (22), 13052-13055, 1998 | 162 | 1998 |
| Sexual selection, space, and speciation RJH Payne, DC Krakauer Evolution 51 (1), 1-9, 1997 | 158 | 1997 |
| The information theory of individuality D Krakauer, N Bertschinger, E Olbrich, JC Flack, N Ay Theory in Biosciences 139, 209-223, 2020 | 145 | 2020 |
| Insights into innovation DH Erwin, DC Krakauer Science 304 (5674), 1117-1119, 2004 | 134 | 2004 |
| Diversity, dilemmas, and monopolies of niche construction DC Krakauer, KM Page, DH Erwin The American Naturalist 173 (1), 26-40, 2009 | 122 | 2009 |
