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| 2002 | - | The Emergence of Linguistic Structure: An overview of the Iterated Learning Model - Kirby,Hurford | :: | 58 |
| 2002 | - | Compositional Syntax from Cultural Transmission - Brighton | :: | 53 |
| 1879 | - | The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex - Darwin | :: | 25 |
| 1948 | - | A mathematical theory of communication - Shannon | :: | 19 |
| 2002 | - | The Evolution of Dialect Diversity - Livingstone | :: | 12 |
| 1995 | - | Bird Song: Biological themes and variations - Catchpole,Slater | :: | 11 |
| 2000 | - | Effects of Compression on Language Evolution - Teal,Taylor | :: | 11 |
| 1999 | - | Birdsong and human speech: Common themes and mechanisms - Doupe,Kuhl | :: | 9 |
| 2003 | - | Multilevel selection in a complex adaptive system: the problem of language origins - Deacon | :: | 6 |
| 2004 | - | Learned birdsong and the neurobiology of human language - Jarvis | :: | 5 |
| 2002 | - | Sexual Display as a Syntactic Vehicle: The Evolution of Syntax in Birdsong and Human Language through Sexual Selection - Okanoya | :: | 5 |
| 1999 | - | The maintenance of vocal learning by gene-culture interaction: the cultural trap hypothesis - Lachlan,Slater | :: | 4 |
| 2004 | - | The bengalese finch: A window on the behavioral neurobiology of birdsong syntax - Okanoya | :: | 3 |
| 2004 | - | Song Grammars as Complex Sexual Displays - Sasahara,Ikegami | :: | 3 |
| 2003 | - | Fifty years of bird song research: a case study in animal behaviour - Slater | :: | 2 |
| 2003 | - | Evolution of cultural communication systems: the coevolution of cultural signals and genes encoding learning preferences - Lachlan,Feldman | :: | 2 |
| 2002 | - | Strange loops in learning and evolution - Wiles,Watson,Tonkes,Deacon | :: | 2 |
| 1999 | - | Are artificial mutation biases unnatural - Bullock | :: | 1 |
| 1975 | - | Mate selection -a selection for a handicap - citeseer | :: | 1 |