| 1997 | - | The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain - Deacon | :: | 142 |
| 2001 | - | Spontaneous evolution of linguistic structure: an iterated learning model of the emergence of regularity and irregularity - Kirby | :: | 96 |
| 2001 | - | Evolution of universal grammar - Nowak,Komarova,Niyogi | :: | 90 |
| 2002 | - | Learning, Bottlenecks and the Evolution of Recursive Syntax - Kirby | :: | 86 |
| 2000 | - | The evolution of syntactic communication - Nowak,Plotkin,Jansen | :: | 81 |
| 1997 | - | Learning, culture and evolution in the origin of linguistic constraints - Kirby,Hurford | :: | 54 |
| 2002 | - | Compositional Syntax from Cultural Transmission - Brighton | :: | 53 |
| 1999 | - | The development of language: Acquisition, change and evolution - Lightfoot | :: | 41 |
| 2000 | - | Grammatical Acquisition: Inductive Bias and Coevolution of Language and the Language Acquisition Device - Briscoe | :: | 36 |
| 1998 | - | Fitness and the selective adaptation of language - Kirby | :: | 33 |
| 1999 | - | Linguistic Diversity - Nettle | :: | 25 |
| 1998 | - | Catastrophic evolution: The case for a single step from protolanguage to full human language - Bickerton | :: | 23 |
| 2002 | - | Grammatical Acquisition and Linguistic Selection - Briscoe | :: | 22 |
| 2000 | - | Evolutionary Perspectives on Diachronic Syntax - Briscoe | :: | 17 |
| 1998 | - | The evolution of language from social intelligence - Worden | :: | 17 |
| 1991 | - | Coevolution, Genes, Culture and Human Diversity - Durham | :: | 16 |
| 2000 | - | Holistic utterances in protolanguage: The link from primates to humans - Wray | :: | 16 |
| 2002 | - | The learning guided evolution of natural language - Turkel | :: | 14 |
| 1993 | - | The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution - Kauffman | :: | 12 |
| 1942 | - | Canalization of development and the inheritance of acquired characters - Waddington | :: | 11 |
| 1999 | - | The Acquisition of Grammar in an Evolving Population of Language Agents - Briscoe | :: | 10 |
| 2003 | - | Grammatical Assimilation - Briscoe | :: | 10 |
| 1999 | - | Creation through contact: Sign language emergence and sign language change in Nicaragua - Kegl,Senghas,Coppola | :: | 10 |
| 2001 | - | The Difficulty of the Baldwinian Account of Linguistic Innateness - Yamauchi | :: | 9 |
| 1975 | - | The evolution of an evolutionist - Waddington | :: | 8 |
| 1996 | - | Landscapes, learning costs and genetic assimilation - Mayley | :: | 6 |
| 2001 | - | The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language - McWhorter | :: | 3 |
| 2000 | - | Evolution of the LAD and the Baldwin Effect - Yamauchi | :: | 2 |