| 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 |
| 1965 | - | Aspects of the Theory of Syntax - Chomsky | :: | 88 |
| 1990 | - | Language and Species - Bickerton | :: | 87 |
| 2002 | - | The Faculty of Language: What Is It, Who Has It, and How Did It Evolve? - Hauser,Chomsky,Fitch | :: | 82 |
| 2000 | - | Syntax without Natural Selection: How compositionality emerges from vocabulary in a population of learners - Kirby | :: | 81 |
| 1999 | - | Function, Selection and Innateness: the Emergence of Language Universals - Kirby | :: | 76 |
| 2002 | - | Natural Language from Artificial Life - Kirby | :: | 67 |
| 1997 | - | The Major Transitions in Evolution - Maynard-Smith,Szathmary | :: | 57 |
| 1998 | - | Approaches to the Evolution of Language: Social and Cognitive Bases - Hurford,Studdert-Kennedy,Knight | :: | 55 |
| 1997 | - | Learning, culture and evolution in the origin of linguistic constraints - Kirby,Hurford | :: | 54 |
| 2003 | - | Evolving Grounded Communication for Robots - Steels | :: | 38 |
| 1896 | - | A new factor in evolution - Baldwin | :: | 37 |
| 2000 | - | Grammatical Acquisition: Inductive Bias and Coevolution of Language and the Language Acquisition Device - Briscoe | :: | 36 |
| 1998 | - | Protolanguage as a holistic system for social interaction - Wray | :: | 36 |
| 2000 | - | Social transmission favours linguistic generalization - Hurford | :: | 34 |
| 2000 | - | The Evolutionary Emergence of Language: Social Function and the Origins of Linguistic Form - Knight,Hurford,Studdert-Kennedy | :: | 33 |
| 1999 | - | Possible stages in the evolution of the language capacity - Jackendoff | :: | 26 |
| 2005 | - | The Faculty of Language: What's Special about it? - Pinker,Jackendoff | :: | 25 |
| 1994 | - | Infinite Languages, Finite Minds: Connectionism, Learning and Linguistic Structure - Christiansen | :: | 25 |
| 2000 | - | The evolution of speech: a comparative review - Fitch | :: | 24 |
| 1960 | - | The origin of speech - Hockett | :: | 24 |
| 1993 | - | Coevolution of neocortex size, group size and language in humans - Dunbar | :: | 22 |
| 2002 | - | The Transition to Language - Wray | :: | 19 |
| 2005 | - | From monkey-like action recognition to human language: An evolutionary framework for neurolinguistics - Arbib | :: | 19 |
| 2003 | - | How the poverty of the stimulus solves the poverty of the stimulus - Zuidema | :: | 18 |
| 2000 | - | Explaining Language Change: An Evolutionary Approach - Croft | :: | 17 |
| 2004 | - | From UG to Universals: linguistic adaptation through iterated learning - Kirby,Smith,Brighton | :: | 16 |
| 1995 | - | Language and Human Behavior - Bickerton | :: | 15 |
| 2002 | - | The learning guided evolution of natural language - Turkel | :: | 14 |
| 2004 | - | Computational constraints on syntactic processing in a nonhuman primate - Fitch,Hauser | :: | 13 |
| 1998 | - | Language Form and Language Function - Newmeyer | :: | 13 |
| 2002 | - | Natural selection and cultural selection in the evolution of communication - Smith | :: | 12 |
| 2002 | - | On Nature and Language - Chomsky | :: | 12 |
| 2005 | - | The evolution of the language faculty: Clarifications and implications - Fitch,Hauser,Chomsky | :: | 12 |
| 2000 | - | The Mating Mind: How sexual choice shaped the evolution of human nature - Miller | :: | 12 |
| 1998 | - | Language evolution and the minimalist program: The origins of syntax - Berwick | :: | 12 |
| 2005 | - | Language as an evolutionary system - Brighton,Smith,Kirby | :: | 10 |
| 1998 | - | Ritual/speech co-evolution: A 'selfish gene' solution to the problem of deception - Knight | :: | 7 |
| 2000 | - | Language and hominid politics - Dessalles | :: | 7 |
| 2003 | - | Language, Learning, and Evolution - Komarova,Nowak | :: | 6 |
| 2003 | - | Multilevel selection in a complex adaptive system: the problem of language origins - Deacon | :: | 6 |
| 2007 | - | Did our ancestors speak a holistic protolanguage? - Tallerman | :: | 6 |
| 2000 | - | Evolution, communication and the proper function of language - Origgi,Sperber | :: | 5 |
| 2005 | - | Language Origins: Perspectives on Evolution - Tallerman | :: | 5 |
| 2004 | - | Word learning in a domestic dog: Evidence for fast mapping - Kaminski,Call,Fischer | :: | 5 |
| 2004 | - | Learned birdsong and the neurobiology of human language - Jarvis | :: | 5 |
| 2005 | - | The nature of the language faculty and its implications for evolution of language (Reply to Fitch, Hauser, and Chomsky) - Jackendoff,Pinker | :: | 5 |
| 2004 | - | Baldwinian Accounts of Language Evolution - Yamauchi | :: | 3 |
| 2005 | - | Elephants are capable of vocal learning - Poole,Tyack,Stoeger-Horwath,Watwood | :: | 2 |
| 2005 | - | Selection, domestication, and the emergence of learned communication systems - Ritchie,Kirby | :: | 2 |
| 1995 | - | Language acquisition - Pinker | :: | 2 |
| 2005 | - | Ultrasonic songs of male mice - Holy,Guo | :: | 2 |
| 1995 | - | Bare phrase structure - Chomsky | :: | 2 |
| 2006 | - | The protolanguage debate: bridging the gap? - Smith | :: | 2 |
| 1969 | - | Vocal tract limitations on the vowel repertoires of rhesus monkey and other nonhuman primates - Lieberman,Klatt,Wilson | :: | 2 |
| 2003 | - | Patterns in the vocalizations of male harbour seals - Van Parijs,Corkeron,Harvey,Hayes,Mellinger,Rouget,Thompson,Wahlberg,Kovacs | :: | 1 |
| 2006 | - | Evolution as a Constraint on Theories of Syntax: The Case against Minimalism - Parker | :: | 1 |