| 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 |
| 2000 | - | The evolution of syntactic communication - Nowak,Plotkin,Jansen | :: | 81 |
| 1998 | - | Approaches to the Evolution of Language: Social and Cognitive Bases - Hurford,Studdert-Kennedy,Knight | :: | 55 |
| 1999 | - | The evolutionary language game - Nowak,Plotkin,Krakauer | :: | 51 |
| 1999 | - | An error limit for the evolution of language - Nowak,Krakauer,Dress | :: | 19 |
| 1948 | - | A Mathematical Theory of Communication - SHANNON | :: | 19 |
| 1998 | - | Evolutionary Games and Population Dynamics - HOFBAUER,SIGMUND | :: | 16 |
| 1991 | - | The Science of Words - MILLER | :: | 12 |
| 1949 | - | The Mathematical Theory of Communication - SHANNON,WEAVER | :: | 7 |
| 1970 | - | Birdsong and speech development: could there be parallels - MARLER | :: | 7 |
| 1988 | - | Codes and Cryptography - WELSH | :: | 2 |
| 1968 | - | Information Theory and Reliable Communication - GALLAGER | :: | 2 |
| 1961 | - | Coding theorems of information theory - WOLFOWITZ | :: | 1 |
| 1988 | - | Information Theory - VAN,VAN | :: | 1 |