| 2001 | - | Evolution of universal grammar - Nowak,Komarova,Niyogi | :: | 90 |
| 2002 | - | Learning, Bottlenecks and the Evolution of Recursive Syntax - Kirby | :: | 86 |
| 2000 | - | Syntax without Natural Selection: How compositionality emerges from vocabulary in a population of learners - Kirby | :: | 81 |
| 2002 | - | Natural Language from Artificial Life - Kirby | :: | 67 |
| 2002 | - | The Emergence of Linguistic Structure: An overview of the Iterated Learning Model - Kirby,Hurford | :: | 58 |
| 1997 | - | Learning, culture and evolution in the origin of linguistic constraints - Kirby,Hurford | :: | 54 |
| 2002 | - | Computational and evolutionary aspects of language - Nowak,Komarova,Niyogi | :: | 49 |
| 1999 | - | The learning barrier: Moving from innate to learned systems of communication - Oliphant | :: | 42 |
| 1998 | - | Fitness and the selective adaptation of language - Kirby | :: | 33 |
| 2003 | - | Progress in the simulation of emergent communication and language - Wagner,Reggia,Uriagereka,Wilkinson | :: | 22 |
| 1998 | - | Language evolution without natural selection: From vocabulary to syntax in a population of learners - Kirby | :: | 15 |
| 2003 | - | Language dynamics in finite populations - Komarova,Nowak | :: | 12 |
| 1999 | - | The Evolution of Language and Languages - Hurford | :: | 12 |
| 2000 | - | Evolutionary biology of language - Nowak | :: | 11 |
| 2002 | - | The role of sequential learning in language evolution: Computational and experimental studies - Christiansen,Dale,Ellefson,Conway | :: | 7 |
| 1996 | - | Function, Selection and Innateness: the Emergence of Language Universals - Kirby | :: | 6 |
| 2008 | - | Language as shaped by the brain - Christiansen,Chater | :: | 5 |
| 2004 | - | Self-organization and Language Evolution: System, Population and Individual - Ke | :: | 4 |
| 2003 | - | Linguistic differences and language design - Baker | :: | 4 |
| 2000 | - | The Emergence of Syntax - Hurford | :: | 4 |
| 2001 | - | Major Transitions in Language Evolution - Plotkin,Nowak | :: | 2 |
| 2001 | - | Sciences of complexity and language origins: an alternative to natural selection - Longa | :: | |
| 2008 | - | Primate social knowledge and the origins of language - Seyfarth,Cheney | :: | |
| 2008 | - | Cost and complexity: Selection for speech and language - Locke | :: | |
| 2000 | - | Review of three book-length studies of language evolution - Newmeyer | :: | |
| 2005 | - | Iterated Learning: The Exemplar-based Learning Approach - Eddy | :: | |