| 1990 | - | Natural language and natural selection - Pinker,Bloom | :: | 168 |
| 1997 | - | The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain - Deacon | :: | 142 |
| 1999 | - | The evolution of language - Nowak,Krakauer | :: | 93 |
| 1996 | - | The dilemma of Saussurean communication - Oliphant | :: | 60 |
| 1999 | - | The evolutionary language game - Nowak,Plotkin,Krakauer | :: | 51 |
| 1990 | - | Biological signals as handicaps - GRAFEN | :: | 29 |
| 1993 | - | Coevolution of neocortical size, group size and language in humans - Dunbar | :: | 22 |
| 1998 | - | An investigation into the evolution of communication - Di~Paolo | :: | 18 |
| 1978 | - | Animal signals: information or manipulation - DAWKINS,KREBS | :: | 11 |
| 1997 | - | Social markers and the evolution of reciprocal exchange - NETTLE,DUNBAR | :: | 11 |
| 1992 | - | Evolutionary games and spatial chaos - NOWAK,MAY | :: | 8 |
| 1998 | - | The particulate origins of language generativity: From syllable to gesture - Studdert-Kennedy | :: | 8 |
| 1989 | - | Symbols and syntax: a darwinian approach to language development - BATES,THAL,MARCHMAN | :: | 5 |
| 1998 | - | Evolution of indirect reciprocity by image scoring - NOWAK,SIGMUND | :: | 5 |
| 1995 | - | Spatial structure and the evolution of honest cost-free signalling - Krakauer,Pagel | :: | 5 |
| 1989 | - | Evolution, selection and cognition: from &&learning'' to parameter setting in biology and the study of language - PIATELLI-PALMARINI | :: | 3 |
| 1996 | - | Terrestriality, bipedalism and the origin of language - AIELLO | :: | 3 |
| 1994 | - | Stochastic spatial models: a user's guide to ecological applications - DURRETT,LEVIN | :: | 2 |
| 1993 | - | Group structure and group size among humans and other primates - FREEMAN | :: | 1 |
| 1992 | - | The human brain - DEACON | :: | 1 |
| 1992 | - | Language training of apes - SAVAGE-RUMBAUGH | :: | 1 |
| 1992 | - | Human speech and language - LIEBERMAN | :: | 1 |
| 1937 | - | The e!ect of variation on fitness - HALDANE | :: | 1 |
| 1998 | - | No last word on language origins - HOLDEN | :: | 1 |
| 1993 | - | Neocortex size, group size and the evolution of language - AIELLO,DUNBAN | :: | 1 |
| 1992 | - | A ¹heory of Content and other Essays - FODOR | :: | 1 |
| 1995 | - | The major evolutionary transitions - SZATHMARY,SMITH | :: | 1 |
| 1996 | - | Acoustic communication in parrots: Laboratory and field studies of budgerigars, Melopsittacus undulatus - FARABAUGH,DOOLING | :: | 1 |
| 1996 | - | An evolutionary and chronological framework for human social behaviour - FOLEY | :: | 1 |
| 1982 | - | How Monkeys See the =orld - CHENEY,SEYFARTH | :: | 1 |
| 1994 | - | Kanzi: ¹he Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind - SAVAGE-RUMBAUGH,SUE,LEWIN | :: | 1 |
| 1987 | - | Rhythm and melody in gelada vocal exchanges - RICHMAN | :: | 1 |
| 1998 | - | Mathematical properties of mutationselection models - BURGER | :: | 1 |
| 1998 | - | The unit of selection in viscous populations and the evolution of altruism - VAN BALLEN,VAN | :: | 1 |
| 1992 | - | Reconstructing past environments - ANDREWS | :: | 1 |