| 1990 | - | Natural language and natural selection - Pinker,Bloom | :: | 168 |
| 2002 | - | The Faculty of Language: What Is It, Who Has It, and How Did It Evolve? - Hauser,Chomsky,Fitch | :: | 82 |
| 2005 | - | The Faculty of Language: What's Special about it? - Pinker,Jackendoff | :: | 25 |
| 1985 | - | Knowledge of Language - Chomsky | :: | 23 |
| 1998 | - | Exaptation: a missing term in the science of form - Gould,Vrba | :: | 14 |
| 2005 | - | The evolution of the language faculty: Clarifications and implications - Fitch,Hauser,Chomsky | :: | 12 |
| 2000 | - | The Blind Watchmaker - Dawkins | :: | 9 |
| 2003 | - | Language as an adaptation to the cognitive niche - Pinker | :: | 7 |
| 2005 | - | The nature of the language faculty and its implications for evolution of language (Reply to Fitch, Hauser, and Chomsky) - Jackendoff,Pinker | :: | 5 |
| 1970 | - | Aristotle's Physics - Aristotle | :: | 1 |
| 1961 | - | Cause and effect in biology - Mayr | :: | 1 |
| 1982 | - | Replicators and vehicles - Dawkins | :: | 1 |
| 2005 | - | Appendix - Chomsky,Hauser,Fitch | :: | 1 |
| 2006 | - | Introduction to evolutionary epistemology, language and culture - Gontier | :: | 1 |
| 2003 | - | What can the field of linguistics tell us about the origin of language - Newmayer | :: | 1 |