| 1990 | - | Natural language and natural selection - Pinker,Bloom | :: | 168 |
| 1997 | - | The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain - Deacon | :: | 142 |
| 1998 | - | Computational simulations of the emergence of grammar - Batali | :: | 99 |
| 1990 | - | Language and Species - Bickerton | :: | 87 |
| 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 |
| 1997 | - | The Major Transitions in Evolution - Maynard-Smith,Szathmary | :: | 57 |
| 1997 | - | Learning, culture and evolution in the origin of linguistic constraints - Kirby,Hurford | :: | 54 |
| 1998 | - | Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language - Dunbar | :: | 49 |
| 1987 | - | Foundations of cognitive grammar: Theoretical Prerequisites - Langacker | :: | 37 |
| 1984 | - | The Language Bioprogram Hypothesis - Bickerton | :: | 30 |
| 1999 | - | Possible stages in the evolution of the language capacity - Jackendoff | :: | 26 |
| 1995 | - | Constructions: A construction grammar approach to argument structure - Goldberg | :: | 19 |
| 1991 | - | Coevolution: Genes, Culture, and Human Diversity - DURHAM | :: | 16 |
| 1990 | - | Uniquely Human: The evolution of speech, thought and selfless behavior - Lieberman | :: | 16 |
| 1986 | - | Relevance: Communication and Cognition - SPERBER,WILSON | :: | 16 |
| 1991 | - | Origins of the Modern Mind - DONALD | :: | 14 |
| 1998 | - | Language evolution and the minimalist program: The origins of syntax - Berwick | :: | 12 |
| 2000 | - | The Seeds of Speech: Language Origin and Evolution - Aitchison | :: | 12 |
| 1999 | - | Creation through contact: Sign language emergence and sign language change in Nicaragua - KEGL,SENGHAS,COPPOLA | :: | 10 |
| 1982 | - | Vision - MARR | :: | 9 |
| 1994 | - | Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind - SAVAGE-RUMBAUGH,LEWIN | :: | 8 |
| 1996 | - | Explaining Culture: A Naturalistic Approach - SPERBER | :: | 7 |
| 1983 | - | Semantics and Cognition - JACKENDOFF | :: | 7 |
| 1990 | - | Semantic Structures - JACKENDOFF | :: | 6 |
| 1998 | - | Ritual/Speech coevolution: A solution to the problem of deception - KNIGHT | :: | 5 |
| 1999 | - | Learning, Bottlenecks and Infinity: a working model of the evolution of syntactic communication - Kirby | :: | 5 |
| 1998 | - | On the supposed 'counterfunctionality' of universal grammar: Some evolutionary considerations - Newmeyer | :: | 5 |
| 2000 | - | Animal Traditions: Behavioural Inheritance in Evolution - AVITAL,JABLONKA | :: | 4 |
| 1991 | - | Thematic proto-roles and argument selection - DOWTY | :: | 4 |
| 1997 | - | Syntax: Structure, Meaning and Function - VAN VALIN,LAPOLLA | :: | 4 |
| 1953 | - | The Baldwin effect - SIMPSON | :: | 3 |
| 1978 | - | Adaptation - LEWONTIN | :: | 3 |
| 1995 | - | Functionalism and Grammar - GIVON | :: | 3 |
| 1992 | - | Linguistic Semantics - FRAWLEY | :: | 2 |
| 1979 | - | Word Meaning and Montague Grammar - DOWTY | :: | 2 |
| 1988 | - | The Semantics of Grammar - WIERZBICKA | :: | 2 |
| 1996 | - | Niche construction - ODLING-SMEE,LALAND,ODLING-SMEE | :: | 1 |
| 1965 | - | The Living Stream: A Restatement of Evolution Theory and its Relation to the Spirit of Man - HARDY | :: | 1 |
| 2000 | - | Towards a semantic account of strong island constraints - DOR | :: | 1 |
| xxxx | - | The narration `instinct' - HEESCHEN | :: | 1 |
| 1996 | - | Representations, Attitudes and Factivity Evaluations: An Epistemically Based Analysis of Lexical Selection - DOR | :: | 1 |
| 1995 | - | Unaccusativity: At the Syntax-Lexical Semantics Interface - LEVIN,RAPPAPORT-HOVAV | :: | 1 |
| 1996 | - | The evolution of language in light of the evolution of literacy - JABLONKA,RECHAV | :: | 1 |
| 1997 | - | Complex Predicates - ALSINA,BRESNAN,SELLS | :: | 1 |
| 1993 | - | Language development - BLOOM | :: | 1 |
| 2000 | - | From the autonomy of syntax to the autonomy of linguistic semantics: Some notes on the correspondence between the transparency problem and the relationship problem - DOR | :: | 1 |
| 1959 | - | Natural selection - HALDANE | :: | 1 |
| 1953 | - | Genetic assimilation of an acquired character - WADDINGTON | :: | 1 |
| 1993 | - | The Making of Memory - ROSE | :: | 1 |
| 1994 | - | The Descent of the Child - MORGAN | :: | 1 |
| 1991 | - | Limits to attention: A cognitive theory of island phenomena - DEAN | :: | 1 |
| 1972 | - | The Spotted Hyena - KRUUK | :: | 1 |
| 1974 | - | Defense in Animals - EDMUNDS | :: | 1 |
| 1987 | - | How learning can guide evolution - HINTON,HINTON | :: | 1 |
| 1991 | - | Wiping the slate clean: A lexical semantic exploration - LEVIN,RAPPAPORT-HOVAV | :: | 1 |
| 1995 | - | An investigation into the role of genetic plasticity in evolution - BEHERA,NANJUNDIAH | :: | 1 |
| 1993 | - | English Verb Classes and Alternations: A Preliminary Investigation - LEVIN | :: | 1 |
| 1956 | - | Imprinting in animal behaviour - EWER | :: | 1 |
| 2000 | - | Towards a semantic account of that-deletion in English - DOR | :: | 1 |
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