| Ackley,Littman, Altruism in the evolution of communication, 1994 | :: | 39 |
| Arak,Enquist, Conflict, receiver bias and the evolution of signal form, 1995 | :: | 1 |
| Axelrod, The evolution of cooperation, 1981 | :: | 21 |
| Basolo, Phylogenetic evidence for the role of a pre-existing bias in sexual selection, 1995 | :: | 1 |
| Bedau, Philosophical content and method of artificial life, 1998 | :: | 2 |
| Beer, Dynamical approaches to cognitive science, 2000 | :: | 1 |
| Beer, The dynamics of active categorical perception in an evolved model agent, 2003 | :: | 3 |
| Brooks, Intelligence without representation, 1991 | :: | 10 |
| Bullock, A continuous evolutionary simulation model of the attainability of honest signalling equilibria, 1998 | :: | 6 |
| Cangelosi,Parisi, The emergence of a language in an evolving population of neural networks, 1998 | :: | 64 |
| Cangelosi,Parisi, Simulating the evolution of language, 2002 | :: | 88 |
| Cangelosi, Evolution of communication and language using signals, symbols, and words, 2001 | :: | 27 |
| Dawkins,Krebs, Animal signals: information or manipulation, 1978 | :: | 11 |
| Dawkins, The selfish gene, 1976 | :: | 54 |
| Dennett, Artificial life as philosophy, 1994 | :: | 3 |
| Di Paolo,Noble,Bullock, Simulation models as opaque thought experiments, 2000 | :: | 6 |
| Di~Paolo, An investigation into the evolution of communication, 1998 | :: | 18 |
| Endler,Basolo, Sensory ecology, receiver biases and sexual selection, 1998 | :: | 2 |
| Grafen, Biological signals as handicaps, 1990 | :: | 29 |
| Guilford,Dawkins, Receiver psychology and the evolution of animal signals, 1991 | :: | 4 |
| Hamilton, Genetic evolution of social behavior, 1964 | :: | 2 |
| Harvey, Untimed and misrepresented: connectionism and the computer metaphor, 1996 | :: | 2 |
| Hauser, The Evolution of Communication, 1997 | :: | 88 |
| Hihara,Yamada,Iriki,Okanoya, Spontaneous vocal differentiation of coo-calls for tools and food in japanese monkeys, 2003 | :: | 1 |
| Hurford, Biological evolution of the Saussurean sign as a component of the language acquisition device, 1989 | :: | 102 |
| Kirby, Natural Language from Artificial Life, 2002 | :: | 67 |
| Krebs,Dawkins, Animal signals: Mind-reading and manipulation, 1984 | :: | 25 |
| Lotem,Wagner,Balshine-Earn, The overlooked signaling component in nonsignaling behavior, 1999 | :: | 1 |
| MacLennan,Burghardt, Synthetic Ethology and the Evolution of Cooperative Communication, 1993 | :: | 40 |
| Maki, Origins of spontaneous mutations: specificity and directionality of base-substitution, frameshift, and sequence-substitution mutageneses, 2002 | :: | 1 |
| Marocco,Cangelosi,Nolfi, The emergence of communication in evolutionary robots, 2003 | :: | 18 |
| Marocco,Nolfi, Origins of Communication in Evolving Robots, 2006 | :: | 2 |
| Maynard-Smith,Harper, Animal signals: models and terminology, 1995 | :: | 10 |
| Maynard-Smith,Harper, Animal Signals, 2003 | :: | 5 |
| Maynard-Smith, The theory of evolution, 1997 | :: | 5 |
| Mirolli,Parisi, Language as an aid to categorization: A neural network model of early language acquisition, 2005 | :: | 5 |
| Mirolli,Parisi, How can we explain the emergence of a language that benefits the hearer but not the speaker?, 2005 | :: | 5 |
| Mirolli,Parisi, Talking to oneself as a selective pressure for the emergence of language, 2006 | :: | 1 |
| Mitchell, Introduction to Genetic Algorithms, 1996 | :: | 2 |
| Noble, Tough guys don't dance: Intention movements and the evolution of signalling in animal, 1998 | :: | 2 |
| Noble, Cooperation, conflict and the evolution of communication, 1999 | :: | 11 |
| Nolfi, Emergence of communication in embodied agents: co-adapting communicative and non-communicative behaviours, 2005 | :: | 4 |
| Oliphant, The dilemma of Saussurean communication, 1996 | :: | 60 |
| Parisi, An Artificial Life Approach to Language, 1997 | :: | 16 |
| Quinn, Evolving Communication without Dedicated Communication Channels, 2001 | :: | 14 |
| Ryan,Fox,Wilczynski,Rand, Sexual selection for sensory exploitation in the frog physalaemus pustulosus, 1990 | :: | 1 |
| Ryan,Phelps,Rand, How evolutionary history shapes recognition mechanisms, 2001 | :: | 2 |
| Searcy,Nowicki, The Evolution of Animal Communication: Reliability and Deception in Signaling Systems, 2005 | :: | 1 |
| Simon, A mechanism for social selection and successful altruism, 1990 | :: | 3 |
| Steels, Emergent Adaptive Lexicons, 1996 | :: | 56 |
| Steels, Experiments on the emergence of human communication, 2006 | :: | 2 |
| Tinbergen, Derived activities: Their causation, biological significance, origin and emancipation during evolution, 1952 | :: | 5 |
| Tinbergen, On aims and methods of ethology, 1963 | :: | 6 |
| Trivers, The evolution of reciprocal altruism, 1971 | :: | 24 |
| VanRhijn,Vodegel, Being honest about one's intentions: An evolutionary stable strategy for animal conflicts, 1980 | :: | 2 |
| Wagner,Reggia,Uriagereka,Wilkinson, Progress in the simulation of emergent communication and language, 2003 | :: | 22 |
| Werner,Dyer, Evolution of Communication in Artificial Organisms, 1992 | :: | 82 |
| Zahavi, Mate selection, 1975 | :: | 2 |