| 1990 | - | Natural language and natural selection - Pinker,Bloom | :: | 168 |
| 1997 | - | The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain - Deacon | :: | 142 |
| 1994 | - | The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language - Pinker | :: | 120 |
| 1999 | - | The evolution of language - Nowak,Krakauer | :: | 93 |
| 1997 | - | The Evolution of Communication - Hauser | :: | 88 |
| 1965 | - | Aspects of the Theory of Syntax - CHOMSKY | :: | 88 |
| 1997 | - | The Major Transitions in Evolution - Maynard-Smith,Szathmary | :: | 57 |
| 1980 | - | Rules and Representations - CHOMSKY | :: | 55 |
| 1998 | - | Approaches to the Evolution of Language: Social and Cognitive Bases - Hurford,Studdert-Kennedy,Knight | :: | 55 |
| 1990 | - | How Monkeys See the world: Inside the Mind of Another Species - CHENEY,SEYFARTH | :: | 52 |
| 1999 | - | The evolutionary language game - Nowak,Plotkin,Krakauer | :: | 51 |
| 1981 | - | Cultural Transmission and Evolution: A quantitative approach - Cavalli-Sforza,Feldman | :: | 45 |
| 1982 | - | Evolution and the Theory of Games - Maynard-Smith | :: | 44 |
| 1985 | - | Culture and the Evolutionary Process - BOYD,RICHERSON | :: | 40 |
| 1991 | - | The Evolution of the Critical Period for Language Acquisition - Hurford | :: | 31 |
| 1999 | - | An error limit for the evolution of language - Nowak,Krakauer,Dress | :: | 19 |
| 1997 | - | A Dynamical Systems Model for Language Change - Niyogi,Berwick | :: | 17 |
| 1998 | - | Evolutionary Games and Population Dynamics - HOFBAUER,SIGMUND | :: | 16 |
| 1990 | - | Uniquely Human: The evolution of speech, thought and selfless behavior - Lieberman | :: | 16 |
| 1991 | - | The Science of words - MILLER | :: | 12 |
| 1935 | - | The Psychobiology of Language - ZIPF | :: | 12 |
| 1963 | - | Finitary models of language users - MILLER,CHOMSKY | :: | 11 |
| 1970 | - | Birdsong and speech development: could there be parallels - MARLER | :: | 7 |
| 1977 | - | The Behaviour of Communicating - SMITH | :: | 6 |
| 1990 | - | Species and Language - BICKERTON | :: | 6 |
| 1975 | - | Re-ections on Language - CHOMSKY | :: | 6 |
| 1992 | - | Language development - BATES | :: | 6 |
| 1991 | - | Infectious Diseases of Humans - ANDERSON,MAY | :: | 1 |
| 1964 | - | The relation of recombination to mutational advance - MULLER | :: | 1 |