| 1997 | - | The synthetic modeling of language origins - Steels | :: | 123 |
| 1998 | - | Computational simulations of the emergence of grammar - Batali | :: | 99 |
| 1996 | - | Self-organizing vocabularies - Steels | :: | 67 |
| 1976 | - | The selfish gene - Dawkins | :: | 54 |
| 1995 | - | How to invent a lexicon: the development of shared symbols in interaction - Hutchins,Hazlehurst | :: | 53 |
| 2000 | - | Social transmission favours linguistic generalization - Hurford | :: | 34 |
| 1998 | - | Stochasticity as a source of innovation in language games - Steels,Kaplan | :: | 30 |
| 2002 | - | Bootstrapping grounded word semantics - Steels,Kaplan | :: | 29 |
| 1999 | - | Collective learning and semiotic dynamics - Steels,Kaplan | :: | 25 |
| 1997 | - | Formal Approaches to Innate and Learned Communication: Laying the Foundation for Language - Oliphant | :: | 25 |
| 1999 | - | Syntax out of Learning: the cultural evolution of structured communication in a population of induction algorithms - Kirby | :: | 23 |
| 1998 | - | Spontaneous Lexicon Change - Steels,Kaplan | :: | 22 |
| 1999 | - | Situated grounded word semantics - Steels,Kaplan | :: | 22 |
| 1997 | - | Generating vowel systems in a population of agents - de~Boer | :: | 19 |
| 1999 | - | The meme machine - Blackmore | :: | 15 |
| 1983 | - | The neutral theory of molecular evolution - Kimura | :: | 12 |
| 1998 | - | Evolution of Linguistic Diversity in a Simple Communication System - Arita,Koyama | :: | 11 |
| 1999 | - | Effective Lexicon Change in the Absence of Population Flux - Dircks,Stoness | :: | 7 |
| 1995 | - | Hidden order: How adaptation builds complexity - Holland | :: | 5 |
| 1997 | - | The ant system: optimisation by a colony of cooperating agents - Dorigo,Maniezzo,Colorni | :: | 2 |
| 1998 | - | Naming games through distributed reinforcement - Cancho,Sole | :: | 1 |
| 1995 | - | Evolution and the Meaning of Life - Darwin's | :: | 1 |
| 1984 | - | Replicator selection and the extended phenotype - Dawkins | :: | 1 |
| 1999 | - | Self-organizing phonological systems - Boer | :: | 1 |
| 1999 | - | Function, selection and innatensess: The emergence of language universals - Kirby | :: | 1 |