| 1990 | - | Language and Species - Bickerton | :: | 87 |
| 2002 | - | Learning, Bottlenecks and the Evolution of Recursive Syntax - Kirby | :: | 86 |
| 2002 | - | The Faculty of Language: What Is It, Who Has It, and How Did It Evolve? - Hauser,Chomsky,Fitch | :: | 82 |
| 1992 | - | Evolution of Communication in Artificial Organisms - Werner,Dyer | :: | 82 |
| 2002 | - | The negotiation and acquisition of recursive grammars as a result of competition among exemplars - Batali | :: | 66 |
| 1998 | - | The emergence of a language in an evolving population of neural networks - Cangelosi,Parisi | :: | 64 |
| 1997 | - | Learning and the emergence of coordinated communication - Oliphant,Batali | :: | 61 |
| 1998 | - | Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language - Dunbar | :: | 49 |
| 2000 | - | Social transmission favours linguistic generalization - Hurford | :: | 34 |
| 1975 | - | Reflections on Language - Chomsky | :: | 28 |
| 1999 | - | Possible stages in the evolution of the language capacity - Jackendoff | :: | 26 |
| 1971 | - | The evolution of reciprocal altruism - Trivers | :: | 24 |
| 1975 | - | Mate selection--a selection for a handicap - Zahavi | :: | 21 |
| 1999 | - | The Spontaneous Self-organization of an Adaptive Language - Steels | :: | 17 |
| 2004 | - | Computational constraints on syntactic processing in a nonhuman primate - Fitch,Hauser | :: | 13 |
| 2001 | - | Cost and conflict in animal signals and human language - Lachmann,Szamado,Bergstrom | :: | 8 |
| 2000 | - | Selective advantages of syntactic language - a model study - Zuidema,Hogeweg | :: | 7 |
| 2002 | - | On the nature and evolution of the neural bases of human language - Lieberman | :: | 6 |
| 1999 | - | Rule learning by seven-month-old infants - Marcus,Vijayan,Rao,Vishton | :: | 3 |
| 2003 | - | Training with cognitive sequences improves syntactic comprehension in agrammatic aphasics - Hoen,Golembiowski,Guyot,Deprez,Caplan,Dominey | :: | 3 |
| 2004 | - | Contributions of memory circuits to language: the declarative/procedural model - Ullman | :: | 3 |
| 1985 | - | Evidence against the non-context-freeness of natural language - Shieber | :: | 3 |
| 1964 | - | Current Issues in Linguistic Theory - Chomsky | :: | 3 |
| 2000 | - | Secret language use at female initiation: Bounding gossiping communities - Power | :: | 3 |
| 1995 | - | The Thinking Ape: Evolutionary Origins of Intelligence - Byrne | :: | 2 |
| 1978 | - | The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map - O'Keefe,Nadel | :: | 2 |
| 1999 | - | Rule learning by seven-month-old infants and neural networks - Altmann,Dienes | :: | 2 |
| 1999 | - | Does generalization in infant learning implicate abstract algebra-like rules? - McClelland,Plaut | :: | 2 |
| 1964 | - | The genetic evolution of social behaviour I - Hamilton | :: | 1 |
| 2001 | - | Costly signaling and cooperation - Smith,Bowles,Gintis | :: | 1 |
| 1979 | - | Transductions and Context-free Languages - Berstel | :: | 1 |
| 2004 | - | Co-operative navigation and the faculty of language - Kazakov,Bartlett | :: | 1 |
| 2005 | - | Comparing resource sharing with information exchange in co-operative agents, and the role of environment structure - Bartlett,Kazakov | :: | 1 |
| 2005 | - | Could navigation be the key to language? - Kazakov,Bartlett | :: | 1 |
| 2003 | - | Aboriginal Traditions - Barwick,Marrett | :: | 1 |
| 2004 | - | Boom and Bust: Environmental Variability Favors the Emergence of Communication - Grim,Kokalis | :: | 1 |
| 2005 | - | What are virtual machines? Are they real? - Sloman | :: | 1 |
| 2002 | - | Coding of Behavioral Sequences in the Basal Ganglia - Aldridge,Berridge | :: | 1 |
| 2000 | - | Artificial grammar learning by infants: an auto-associator perspective - Sirois,Buckingham,Shultz | :: | 1 |
| 2002 | - | Stochastic simulation of inherited kinship-driven altruism - Turner,Kazakov | :: | 1 |
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