| 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 |
| 1984 | - | The Biology and Evolution of Language - Lieberman | :: | 44 |
| 1984 | - | Animal signals: Mind-reading and manipulation - Krebs,Dawkins | :: | 25 |
| 1971 | - | The evolution of reciprocal altruism - Trivers | :: | 24 |
| 2000 | - | The evolution of speech: a comparative review - Fitch | :: | 24 |
| 1975 | - | Logic and conversation - Grice | :: | 22 |
| 1998 | - | Altruism, status, and the origin of relevance - Dessalles | :: | 17 |
| 1964 | - | The genetical evolution of social behaviour - Hamilton | :: | 14 |
| 2000 | - | The mating mind: How sexual choice shaped the evolution of human nature - Miller | :: | 12 |
| 2004 | - | Kin Selection and ``Mother Tongues'': A Neglected Component in Language Evolution - Fitch | :: | 11 |
| 2003 | - | What are the uniquely human components of the language faculty? - Hauser,Fitch | :: | 8 |
| 2001 | - | Rank and relationships in the evolution of spoken language - Locke | :: | 5 |
| 2005 | - | The Talking Ape: How Language Evolved - Burling | :: | 5 |
| 2000 | - | Evolution, communication and the proper function of language - Origgi,Sperber | :: | 5 |
| 1989 | - | The logic of social exchange: Has natural selection shaped how humans reason - Cosmides | :: | 4 |
| 2007 | - | Language evolution: A brief guide for linguists - Bickerton | :: | 3 |
| 2003 | - | Why Synonymy is Rare: Fitness is in the Speaker - Hurford | :: | 3 |
| 2002 | - | Altruistic punishment in humans - Fehr,Gachter | :: | 2 |
| 1966 | - | Things, words and the brain - Oldfield | :: | 2 |
| 2001 | - | General introduction - Tomasello,Bates | :: | 2 |
| 1999 | - | Words in the brain's language - Pulverm | :: | 2 |
| 1992 | - | Domain-specific reasoning: Social contracts, cheating, and perspective change - Gigerenzer,Hug | :: | 2 |
| 1994 | - | Modularity, domain specificity and the development of language - Bates | :: | 2 |
| 2003 | - | Evolutionary Psychology and the challenge of adaptive explanation - Gray | :: | 2 |
| 1996 | - | Pragmatic development - Ninio,Snow | :: | 2 |
| 2003 | - | An adaptation to the cognitive niche - Pinker | :: | 2 |
| 2004 | - | Gossip in evolutionary perspective - Dunbar | :: | 1 |