| 2000 | - | The evolution of syntactic communication - Nowak,Plotkin,Jansen | :: | 81 |
| 1999 | - | The development of language: Acquisition, change and evolution - Lightfoot | :: | 41 |
| 1998 | - | Becoming human: Evolution and human uniqueness - Tattersall | :: | 3 |
| 1998 | - | Evolutionary Biology - Futuyma | :: | 3 |
| 1998 | - | Catastrophic evolution: The case for a single step from protolanguage to full human language - Bickerton | :: | 23 |
| 1998 | - | On the supposed 'counterfunctionality' of universal grammar: Some evolutionary considerations - Newmeyer | :: | 5 |
| 1998 | - | Language evolution and the minimalist program: The origins of syntax - Berwick | :: | 12 |
| 1997 | - | Evolutionary biology and the evolution of language - Pinker | :: | 1 |
| 1997 | - | The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain - Deacon | :: | 142 |
| 1997 | - | The Major Transitions in Evolution - Maynard-Smith,Szathmary | :: | 57 |
| 1996 | - | Evolution, learning, and instinct: - Turney,Whitney,Anderson | :: | 1 |
| 1995 | - | Darwin's Dangerous Idea - Dennett | :: | 6 |
| 1995 | - | At Home in the Universe - Kauffman | :: | 3 |
| 1995 | - | Language and Human Behavior - Bickerton | :: | 15 |
| 1994 | - | Prolegomena to a future evolution metaphysics: the emergence of homo loquens and physical law - Otero | :: | 1 |
| 1994 | - | The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language - Pinker | :: | 120 |
| 1994 | - | Chomsky and the cognitive revolution of the 1950s: the emergence of transformational generative grammar - Otero | :: | 1 |
| 1994 | - | How the Leopard Changed Its Spots - Goodwin | :: | 1 |
| 1993 | - | The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution - Kauffman | :: | 12 |
| 1993 | - | Language and thought - Chomsky | :: | 5 |
| 1992 | - | Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos - Waldrop | :: | 1 |
| 1992 | - | Complexity - Lewin | :: | 1 |
| 1991 | - | The cognitive revolution and the study of language: Looking back to see ahead - Otero | :: | 1 |
| 1991 | - | Functional explanation in linguistics and the origins of language - Newmeyer | :: | 26 |
| 1990 | - | On the coevolution of language and social competence - Premack | :: | 2 |
| 1990 | - | Language and Species - Bickerton | :: | 87 |
| 1990 | - | The emergence of homo loquens and the laws of physics - Otero | :: | 1 |
| 1990 | - | The genome might as well store the entire language in the environment - Ninio | :: | 3 |
| 1990 | - | Welcome to functionalism - Bates,MacWhinney | :: | 3 |
| 1990 | - | Chaos Bound - Hayles | :: | 1 |
| 1990 | - | Natural language and natural selection - Pinker,Bloom | :: | 168 |
| 1989 | - | Evolution, selection and cognition: from `learning' to parameter setting in biology and in the study of language - Piatelli-Palmarini | :: | 2 |
| 1988 | - | Language and Problems of Knowledge - Chomsky | :: | 13 |
| 1986 | - | The Blind Watchmaker - Dawkins | :: | 9 |
| 1986 | - | Ape Language: From Conditioned Response to Symbol - Savage-Rumbaugh | :: | 7 |
| 1986 | - | Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origins and Use - Chomsky | :: | 2 |
| 1982 | - | Noam Chomsky on The Generative Enterprise - Chomsky | :: | 1 |
| 1982 | - | Exaptation: A missing term in the science of form - Gould,Vrba | :: | 14 |
| 1981 | - | The Logical Problem of Language Acquisition - Baker,McCarthy | :: | 4 |
| 1981 | - | Review of Liberty and Language - Lightfoot | :: | 1 |
| 1980 | - | Formal Principles of Language Acquisition - Wexler,Culicover | :: | 30 |
| 1980 | - | Rules and Representations - Chomsky | :: | 55 |
| 1979 | - | The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: A critique of the adaptationist programme - Gould,Lewontin | :: | 13 |
| 1979 | - | Syntactic theory and the Projection Problem - Baker | :: | 6 |
| 1976 | - | The Selfish Gene - Dawkins | :: | 54 |
| 1975 | - | Reflections on Language - Chomsky | :: | 28 |
| 1973 | - | The Evolution of the Brain and Intelligence - Jerison | :: | 1 |
| 1971 | - | The Insect Societies - Wilson | :: | 4 |
| 1970 | - | Genetics of the Evolutionary Process - Dobhzansky | :: | 1 |
| 1968 | - | Language and Mind - Chomsky | :: | 42 |
| 1966 | - | The Phylogeny and Ontogeny of Behavior - Skinner | :: | 2 |
| 1966 | - | Adaptation and Natural Selection - Williams | :: | 13 |
| 1964 | - | The evolution of social behavior - Hamilton | :: | 2 |
| 1917 | - | On Growth and Form - Thompson | :: | 9 |
| 1896 | - | A new factor in evolution - Baldwin | :: | 37 |
| 1859 | - | On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection - Darwin | :: | 2 |