| 2001 | - | The information storage capacity of compact metric - Dress,Mueller,Nowak | :: | 1 |
| 2001 | - | Mathematical models for language evolution - Komarova,Nowak | :: | 1 |
| 2000 | - | The basic reproductive ratio of a word, the maximum size of a lexicon - Nowak | :: | 10 |
| 2000 | - | Nash equilibria for an evolutionary language game - Trapa,Nowak | :: | 11 |
| 2000 | - | The evolution of syntactic communication - Nowak,Plotkin,Jansen | :: | 81 |
| 2000 | - | Language evolution and information theory - Plotkin,Nowak | :: | 15 |
| 2000 | - | Kin imitation for a private sign system - Krakauer | :: | 2 |
| 2000 | - | Error, Population Structure and the Origin of Diverse Sign Systems - Grassly,von Haeseler,Krakauer | :: | 9 |
| 1999 | - | The evolutionary language game - Nowak,Plotkin,Krakauer | :: | 51 |
| 1999 | - | Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language - Pinker | :: | 14 |
| 1999 | - | The origins of life - Maynard-Smith,Szathmary | :: | 2 |
| 1999 | - | An error limit for the evolution of language - Nowak,Krakauer,Dress | :: | 19 |
| 1999 | - | The evolution of language - Nowak,Krakauer | :: | 93 |
| 1998 | - | The informational complexity of learning - Niyogi | :: | 18 |
| 1998 | - | Approaches to the Evolution of Language: Social and Cognitive Bases - Hurford,Studdert-Kennedy,Knight | :: | 55 |
| 1997 | - | The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain - Deacon | :: | 142 |
| 1997 | - | The Major Transitions in Evolution - Maynard-Smith,Szathmary | :: | 57 |
| 1997 | - | The organization of human language cortex: special adaptation or common cortical design - Hutsler,Gazzaniga | :: | 2 |
| 1997 | - | The evolutionary origin of the language areas in the human brain - Aboitiz,Garcia | :: | 3 |
| 1997 | - | The Evolution of Communication - Hauser | :: | 88 |
| 1997 | - | Genes, peoples and languages - Cavalli-Sforza | :: | 11 |
| 1997 | - | The architecture of the language faculty - Jackendoff | :: | 13 |
| 1997 | - | The synthetic modeling of language origins - Steels | :: | 123 |
| 1996 | - | A Language Learning Model for Finite Parameter Spaces - Niyogi,Berwick | :: | 24 |
| 1995 | - | The great human diasporas: the history of diversity and evolution - Cavalli-Sforza,Cavalli-Sforza | :: | 2 |
| 1994 | - | Word recognition in the human inferior temporal lobe - Nobre,Allison,McCarthy | :: | 3 |
| 1994 | - | The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language - Pinker | :: | 120 |
| 1993 | - | The acquisition of morphology: learning the contribution of su-¤xes to the meanings of derivatives - Nagy,Diadikoy,Anderson | :: | 2 |
| 1993 | - | Primate calls, human language, and nonverbal communication - Burling | :: | 10 |
| 1992 | - | Language development - Bates | :: | 6 |
| 1991 | - | The Evolution of the Critical Period for Language Acquisition - Hurford | :: | 31 |
| 1991 | - | Functional explanation in linguistics and the origins of language - Newmeyer | :: | 26 |
| 1991 | - | The science of words - Miller | :: | 12 |
| 1991 | - | Familial aggregation of a developmental language disorder - Gopnik,Crago | :: | 20 |
| 1991 | - | The lopsided ape - Corballis | :: | 4 |
| 1990 | - | How monkeys see the world: Inside the mind of another species - Cheney,Seyfarth | :: | 52 |
| 1990 | - | Language and Species - Bickerton | :: | 87 |
| 1990 | - | Maturational constraints on language learning - Newport | :: | 17 |
| 1990 | - | Natural language and natural selection - Pinker,Bloom | :: | 168 |
| 1989 | - | Pleiotropy and preadaptation in the evolution of human language capacity - Aoki,Feldman | :: | 3 |
| 1989 | - | Biological evolution of the Saussurean sign as a component of the language acquisition device - Hurford | :: | 102 |
| 1988 | - | Language and p roblems of knowledge: the Managua lectures - Chomsky | :: | 12 |
| 1986 | - | From icons to symbols : some speculations on the origin of language - Brandon,Hornstein | :: | 4 |
| 1984 | - | How many words are there in printed school English - Nagy,Anderson | :: | 2 |
| 1984 | - | The Biology and Evolution of Language - Lieberman | :: | 44 |
| 1982 | - | Evolution and the theory of games - Maynard-Smith | :: | 44 |
| 1981 | - | Language and speech - Miller | :: | 4 |
| 1981 | - | Cultural Transmission and Evolution: A quantitative approach - Cavalli-Sforza,Feldman | :: | 45 |
| 1980 | - | Monkey responses to three di-¡erent alarm calls: evidence of predator classi-¢cation and semantic communication - Seyfarth,Cheney,Marler | :: | 2 |
| 1980 | - | A model of speech perception - Cole,Jakimik | :: | 3 |
| 1979 | - | The hypercycle - Eigen,Schuster | :: | 5 |
| 1977 | - | The behavior of communicating - Smith | :: | 9 |
| 1974 | - | The evolution of surnames: an analysis of their distribution and extinction - Yasuda,Cavalli-Sforza,Skolnick,Moroni | :: | 2 |
| 1972 | - | Language and mind - Chomsky | :: | 42 |
| 1971 | - | Language, culture, and communication - Greenberg | :: | 4 |
| 1967 | - | The dance language and orientation of bees - von Frisch | :: | 3 |
| 1967 | - | The psychology of communication - Miller | :: | 2 |
| 1965 | - | Aspects of the theory of syntax - Chomsky | :: | 88 |
| 1963 | - | Finitary models of language users - Miller,Chomsky | :: | 11 |
| 1935 | - | The psychobiology of language - Zipf | :: | 12 |
| 1871 | - | The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex - Darwin | :: | 25 |