| 1990 | - | Natural language and natural selection - Pinker,Bloom | :: | 168 |
| 1994 | - | The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language - Pinker | :: | 120 |
| 1999 | - | The evolution of language - Nowak,Krakauer | :: | 93 |
| 2001 | - | Evolution of universal grammar - Nowak,Komarova,Niyogi | :: | 90 |
| 1997 | - | The Evolution of Communication - Hauser | :: | 88 |
| 1965 | - | Aspects of the Theory of Syntax - Chomsky | :: | 88 |
| 2000 | - | The evolution of syntactic communication - Nowak,Plotkin,Jansen | :: | 81 |
| 2002 | - | Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution - Jackendoff | :: | 59 |
| 1998 | - | Approaches to the Evolution of Language: Social and Cognitive Bases - Hurford,Studdert-Kennedy,Knight | :: | 55 |
| 1967 | - | Language identification in the limit - Gold | :: | 54 |
| 1981 | - | Cultural Transmission and Evolution: A quantitative approach - Cavalli-Sforza,Feldman | :: | 45 |
| 1972 | - | Language and Mind - Chomsky | :: | 42 |
| 1991 | - | How to Set Parameters: Arguments from Language Change - Lightfoot | :: | 33 |
| 1999 | - | Possible stages in the evolution of the language capacity - Jackendoff | :: | 26 |
| 1996 | - | A Language Learning Model for Finite Parameter Spaces - Niyogi,Berwick | :: | 24 |
| 2000 | - | The evolution of speech: a comparative review - Fitch | :: | 24 |
| 1998 | - | The Informational Complexity of Learning - Niyogi | :: | 18 |
| 1990 | - | Uniquely Human: The evolution of speech, thought and selfless behavior - Lieberman | :: | 16 |
| 1992 | - | The Evolution of Human Languages - Hawkins,Gell-Mann | :: | 16 |
| 1997 | - | The Architecture of the Language Faculty - Jackendoff | :: | 13 |
| 1995 | - | The Nature of Statistical Learning Theory - Vapnik | :: | 11 |
| 1986 | - | Systems That Learn - Osherson | :: | 3 |
| 1982 | - | Evolution and the Theory of Games - Maynard | :: | 2 |
| 1998 | - | Evolutionary games and replicator dynamics - Hofbauer | :: | 1 |
| 1980 | - | Formal Principles of Language Acquisition - Wexler | :: | 1 |
| 1995 | - | The Major Transitions in Evolution - Smith | :: | 1 |
| 2001 | - | Mathematics of learning - Komarova | :: | 1 |