| 1990 | - | Natural language and natural selection - Pinker,Bloom | :: | 168 |
| 1997 | - | The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain - Deacon | :: | 142 |
| 1989 | - | Biological evolution of the Saussurean sign as a component of the language acquisition device - Hurford | :: | 102 |
| 1999 | - | The evolution of language - Nowak,Krakauer | :: | 93 |
| 1999 | - | The evolutionary language game - Nowak,Plotkin,Krakauer | :: | 51 |
| 1998 | - | Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language - Dunbar | :: | 49 |
| 1964 | - | The genetical evolution of social behaviour - HAMILTON | :: | 14 |
| 2000 | - | Error, Population Structure and the Origin of Diverse Sign Systems - Grassly,von Haeseler,Krakauer | :: | 9 |
| 1977 | - | The Behaviour of Communicating - SMITH | :: | 6 |
| 1967 | - | The Dance Language and Orientation of Bees - von FRISCH | :: | 3 |
| 1982 | - | Heritable true fitness and bright birds: A role for parasites - HAMILTON,ZUK | :: | 3 |
| 1977 | - | The structure of animal communication sounds - MARLER | :: | 3 |
| 1980 | - | Monkey responses to three di!erent alarm calls: evidence of predator classification and semantic communication - SEYFARTH,CHENEY,MARLER | :: | 2 |
| 1985 | - | Alarm calls of Belding's ground squirrels to aerial predators: nepotism or self-preservation - SHERMAN | :: | 2 |
| 1987 | - | Bird song, sexual selection and female choice - CATCHPOLE | :: | 1 |
| 1981 | - | Selective forces affecting the predator alarm calls of vervet monkeys - CHENEY,SEYFARTH | :: | 1 |
| 1992 | - | Probability and Random Processes - GRIMMET,STIRZAKER | :: | 1 |
| 1996 | - | Bird Calls: just emotional displays or something else - MARLER,EVANS | :: | 1 |
| 1991 | - | Dance dialects and foraging range in three asian honey bee species - DYER,SEELEY | :: | 1 |
| 1994 | - | The Order of Things - FOUCAULT | :: | 1 |
| 1995 | - | An introduction to language and Communication Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press - AKMAJIAN,DEMERS,FARMER,HARNISH | :: | 1 |
| 1982 | - | Primate polyspecific associations: do they occur by chance - WASER | :: | 1 |
| 1997 | - | Does social complexity drive the evolution of communicative complexity - BLUMSTEIN,ARMITAGE | :: | 1 |
| 1986 | - | Knowledge of Language: It's Nature, Origin and Use New York: Praeger - CHOMSKY | :: | 1 |
| 1979 | - | The roaring of red deer and the evolution of honest advertisement - CLUTTON-BROCK,ALBON | :: | 1 |
| 1960 | - | African languages - GREENBERG | :: | 1 |