| 1990 | - | Natural language and natural selection - Pinker,Bloom | :: | 168 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 1999 | - | Function, Selection and Innateness: the Emergence of Language Universals - Kirby | :: | 76 |
| 2002 | - | Natural Language from Artificial Life - Kirby | :: | 67 |
| 2002 | - | The negotiation and acquisition of recursive grammars as a result of competition among exemplars - Batali | :: | 66 |
| 2002 | - | Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution - Jackendoff | :: | 59 |
| 2002 | - | The Emergence of Linguistic Structure: An overview of the Iterated Learning Model - Kirby,Hurford | :: | 58 |
| 1997 | - | The Major Transitions in Evolution - Maynard-Smith,Szathmary | :: | 57 |
| 1997 | - | Learning, culture and evolution in the origin of linguistic constraints - Kirby,Hurford | :: | 54 |
| 2002 | - | Compositional Syntax from Cultural Transmission - Brighton | :: | 53 |
| 1990 | - | How monkeys see the world: Inside the mind of another species - Cheney,Seyfarth | :: | 52 |
| 2003 | - | Evolving Grounded Communication for Robots - Steels | :: | 38 |
| 1998 | - | The frame/content theory of evolution of speech production - MacNeilage | :: | 28 |
| 2001 | - | Evolution of communication and language using signals, symbols, and words - Cangelosi | :: | 27 |
| 1987 | - | Language and Number: the emergence of a cognitive system - Hurford | :: | 26 |
| 1998 | - | Language within our grasp - Rizzolatti,Arbib | :: | 26 |
| 2001 | - | Towards an evolutionary theory of language - Nowak,Komarova | :: | 26 |
| 1990 | - | Nativist and functional explanations in language acquisition - Hurford | :: | 26 |
| 2001 | - | A forkhead-domain gene is mutated in a severe speech and language disorder - Lai,Fisher,Hurst,Vargha-Khadem,Monaco | :: | 25 |
| 2000 | - | The evolution of speech: a comparative review - Fitch | :: | 24 |
| 2001 | - | The Survival of the Smallest: Stability Conditions for the Cultural Evolution of Compositional Language - Brighton,Kirby | :: | 22 |
| 2002 | - | Grammatical Acquisition and Linguistic Selection - Briscoe | :: | 22 |
| 2002 | - | Molecular evolution of FOXP2, a gene involved in speech and language - Enard,Przeworski,Fisher,Lai,Wiebe,Kitano,Monaco,Paabo | :: | 21 |
| 1999 | - | Syntax as an emergent characteristic of the evolution of semantic complexity - Schoenemann | :: | 18 |
| 2000 | - | Evolutionary Perspectives on Diachronic Syntax - Briscoe | :: | 17 |
| 1997 | - | Genes, peoples and languages - Cavalli-Sforza | :: | 11 |
| 1999 | - | Cooperation, conflict and the evolution of communication - Noble | :: | 11 |
| 2001 | - | The Importance of Rapid Cultural Convergence in the Evolution of Learned Symbolic Communication - Smith | :: | 9 |
| 2002 | - | Linguistic Adaptation Without Linguistic Constraints: The Role of Sequential Learning in Language Evolution - Christiansen,Ellefson | :: | 8 |
| 2001 | - | Sequential learning in non-human primates - Conway,Christiansen | :: | 7 |
| 2002 | - | Grounding the Mirror System Hypothesis for the Evolution of the Language-Ready Brain - Arbib | :: | 7 |
| 2003 | - | Symbol and structure: a comprehensive framework for language evolution - Bickerton | :: | 7 |
| 2002 | - | The role of sequential learning in language evolution: Computational and experimental studies - Christiansen,Dale,Ellefson,Conway | :: | 7 |
| 2003 | - | Language as an adaptation to the cognitive niche - Pinker | :: | 7 |
| 1998 | - | On the Co-evolution of Language, Mind and Brain - Givón | :: | 7 |
| 2002 | - | On the Evolution of Grammatical Forms - Heine,Kuteva | :: | 6 |
| 2000 | - | Evolutionary implications of the particulate principle: Imitation and the dissociation of phonetic form from semantic function - Studdert-Kennedy | :: | 6 |
| xxxx | - | Multilevel selection in a complex adaptive system: the problem of language origins - Deacon | :: | 6 |
| 2003 | - | From hand to mouth: The gestural origins of language - Corballis | :: | 6 |
| 2002 | - | Constraints on Communities with Indigenous Sign Languages: Clues to the Dynamics of Language Genesis - Ragir | :: | 6 |
| 1991 | - | The three scales of diachrony - Wang | :: | 5 |
| 2002 | - | Some Facts about Primate (including Human) Communication and Social Learning - Tomasello | :: | 5 |
| 1998 | - | The evolution of cognition: Questions we will never answer - Lewontin | :: | 5 |
| 2003 | - | On the different origins of symbols and grammar - Tomasello | :: | 4 |
| 2003 | - | Universal Grammar and semiotic constraints - Deacon | :: | 4 |
| 1996 | - | Statistical learning by 8-month-old infants - Saffran | :: | 4 |
| 2000 | - | Competing constraints on intergestural coordination and self-organization of phonological structures - Browman,Goldstein | :: | 4 |
| 2003 | - | Motor control, speech, and the evolution of human language - Lieberman | :: | 3 |
| 2004 | - | The Role of Learning and Development in Language Evolution: A Connectionist Perspective - Christiansen,Dale | :: | 3 |
| 2003 | - | Language evolution and change - Christiansen,Dale | :: | 3 |
| 2001 | - | Sound on the rebound: Returning form and function back to the forefront in understanding nonhuman primate vocal signaling - Owren,Rendall | :: | 2 |
| 2001 | - | Segmentation of the speech stream in a nonhuman primate: Statistical learning in cotton-top tamarins - Hauser | :: | 2 |
| 2003 | - | The Origin and Subsequent Evolution of Language - Dunbar | :: | 2 |
| 2000 | - | The distinction between sentences and noun phrases: An impediment to language evolution? - Carstairs-McCarthy | :: | 2 |
| xxxx | - | Language type frequency and learnability from a connectionist perspective - Van Everbroeck | :: | 2 |
| 2003 | - | The archaeological evidence of language origins: States of the art - Davidson | :: | 2 |
| 2003 | - | From mouth to hand: gesture, speech and the evolution of right-handedness - Corballis | :: | 1 |
| 2002 | - | Behavioural analysis of an inherited speech and language disorder: Comparison with acquired aphasia - Watkins | :: | 1 |
| 2002 | - | Introduction: Conceptualizing Transition in an Evolving Field - Wray | :: | 1 |
| xxxx | - | Imitation and mimesis - Donald | :: | 1 |
| 1987 | - | Primate handedness reconsidered - MacNeilage | :: | 1 |
| xxxx | - | Evolution of Language: Cognitive Preadaptations - Hurford | :: | 1 |
| xxxx | - | Genetics and language - Tomblin | :: | 1 |
| xxxx | - | Different approaches to relating genotype to phenotype in developmental disorders - Karmiloff-Smith | :: | 1 |
| xxxx | - | Is gestural communication more sophisticated than vocal communication in wild chimpanzees - Arcadi | :: | 1 |