| 1990 | - | Natural language and natural selection - Pinker,Bloom | :: | 168 |
| 2002 | - | The Faculty of Language: What Is It, Who Has It, and How Did It Evolve? - Hauser,Chomsky,Fitch | :: | 82 |
| 1998 | - | Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language - Dunbar | :: | 49 |
| 1985 | - | Culture and the Evolutionary Process - Boyd,Richerson | :: | 40 |
| 1971 | - | The evolution of reciprocal altruism - Trivers | :: | 24 |
| 1978 | - | Animal signals: Information or manipulation - Dawkins,Krebs | :: | 11 |
| 1997 | - | Social markers and the evolution of reciprocal exchange - Nettle,Dunbar | :: | 11 |
| 1981 | - | The evolution of cooperation - Axelrod,Hamilton | :: | 10 |
| 1998 | - | Old wives' tales: The gossip hypothesis and the reliability of cheap signals - Power | :: | 6 |
| 1995 | - | Why does culture increase human adaptability - Boyd,Richerson | :: | 6 |
| 1964 | - | The genetical evolution of social behavior - Hamilton | :: | 6 |
| 1995 | - | Cognition in the Wild - Hutchins | :: | 6 |
| 2000 | - | Cheap talk when interests conflict - Silk,Kaldor,Boyd | :: | 5 |
| 1996 | - | Social Learning in Animals: The Roots of Culture - Heyes,Galef | :: | 5 |
| 1996 | - | Why culture is common but cultural evolution is rare - Boyd,Richerson | :: | 5 |
| 2003 | - | The evolution of cultural evolution - Henrich,McElreath | :: | 4 |
| 1988 | - | Does biology constrain culture - Rogers | :: | 4 |
| 1967 | - | The Dance Language and Orientation of Bees - Frisch,Von | :: | 3 |
| 2003 | - | Explaining altruistic behavior in humans - Gintis,Bowles,Boyd,Fehr | :: | 2 |
| 1991 | - | Change, regularity, and value in the evolution of animal learning - Stephens | :: | 1 |
| 2004 | - | Not by Genes Alone - Boyd,Richerson | :: | 1 |
| 1988 | - | The evolution of reciprocity in sizable groups - Boyd,Richerson | :: | 1 |
| 2004 | - | The evolutionary origin of cooperators and defectors - Doebili,Hauert,Killingback | :: | 1 |
| 1982 | - | Do animals convey information about their intentions - Maynard-Smith | :: | 1 |
| 1997 | - | Cooperation Among Animals: An Evolutionary Perspective - Dugatkin | :: | 1 |
| 1995 | - | On the evolution of learning: Representation of a stochastic environment - Bergman,Feldman | :: | 1 |
| 1980 | - | Vervet monkey alarm calls: Semantic communication in a free-ranging primate - Seyfarth,Chenery,Marler | :: | 1 |
| 1982 | - | The Rules of the Sociological Method - Durkheim | :: | 1 |
| 1991 | - | The Origins of the Modern Mind - Donald | :: | 1 |
| 1996 | - | Emergency Decisions, Cultural Selection Mechanics, and Group Selection - Boehm | :: | 1 |
| 2000 | - | Archeology and the evolution of human behavior - Klein | :: | 1 |
| xxxx | - | Solving the puzzle of human cooperation - Boyd,Richerson | :: | 1 |
| 2003 | - | A tale of two defectors: The importance of standing for the evolution of indirect reciprocity - Panchanathan,Boyd | :: | 1 |
| 1995 | - | Can group-functional behaviors evolve by cultural-group selection - an empirical test - Soltis,Boyd,Richerson | :: | 1 |