| 1990 | - | Natural language and natural selection - Pinker,Bloom | :: | 168 |
| 1989 | - | Biological evolution of the Saussurean sign as a component of the language acquisition device - Hurford | :: | 102 |
| 2001 | - | Evolution of universal grammar - Nowak,Komarova,Niyogi | :: | 90 |
| 1997 | - | The Evolution of Communication - Hauser | :: | 88 |
| 2002 | - | Learning, Bottlenecks and the Evolution of Recursive Syntax - Kirby | :: | 86 |
| 2002 | - | Natural Language from Artificial Life - Kirby | :: | 67 |
| 1996 | - | The dilemma of Saussurean communication - Oliphant | :: | 60 |
| 1997 | - | The Major Transitions in Evolution - Maynard-Smith,Szathmary | :: | 57 |
| 2002 | - | Compositional Syntax from Cultural Transmission - Brighton | :: | 53 |
| 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 |
| 1999 | - | The learning barrier: Moving from innate to learned systems of communication - Oliphant | :: | 42 |
| 1985 | - | Culture and the Evolutionary Process - Boyd,Richerson | :: | 40 |
| 1991 | - | The Evolution of the Critical Period for Language Acquisition - Hurford | :: | 31 |
| 2002 | - | Bootstrapping grounded word semantics - Steels,Kaplan | :: | 29 |
| 2002 | - | The cultural evolution of communication in a population of neural networks - Smith | :: | 27 |
| 2001 | - | Towards an evolutionary theory of language - Nowak,Komarova | :: | 26 |
| 1999 | - | The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition - Tomasello | :: | 26 |
| 2003 | - | Investigating social interaction strategies for bootstrapping lexicon development - Vogt,Coumans | :: | 24 |
| 2001 | - | The Survival of the Smallest: Stability Conditions for the Cultural Evolution of Compositional Language - Brighton,Kirby | :: | 22 |
| 1989 | - | Categorization and Naming in Children: Problems of Induction - Markman | :: | 21 |
| 2001 | - | The evolutionary dynamics of the lexical matrix - Komarova,Nowak | :: | 20 |
| 2003 | - | Least effort and the origins of scaling in human language - Ferrer-i-Cancho,Sole | :: | 19 |
| 2003 | - | The Transmission of Language: models of biological and cultural evolution - Smith | :: | 15 |
| 2002 | - | Natural selection and cultural selection in the evolution of communication - Smith | :: | 12 |
| 1995 | - | Bird Song: Biological Themes and Variations - Catchpole,Slater | :: | 11 |
| 1997 | - | Primate Cognition - Tomasello,Call | :: | 10 |
| 1960 | - | Logical considerations in the study of animal communication - Hockett | :: | 9 |
| 1974 | - | Decoding the language of the bee - von Frisch | :: | 9 |
| 1973 | - | The logic of animal conflict - Maynard-Smith,Price | :: | 8 |
| 1988 | - | Children's use of mutual exclusivity to constrain the meaning of words - Markman,Wachtel | :: | 7 |
| 1977 | - | Language change in childhood and history - Slobin | :: | 7 |
| 1977 | - | Syntactic reanalysis - Langacker | :: | 6 |
| 1993 | - | On the meaning of alarm calls: functional reference in an avian vocal system - Evans,Evans,Marler | :: | 5 |
| 1931 | - | Evolution in mendelian populations - Wright | :: | 5 |
| 1997 | - | Some general features of vocal development in nonhuman primates - Seyfarth,Cheney | :: | 5 |
| 1988 | - | On the logic of contrast - Clark | :: | 5 |
| 1997 | - | The ontogeny of chimpanzee gestural signals: a comparison across groups and generations - Tomasello,Call,Warren,Frost,Carpenter,Nagell | :: | 5 |
| 1983 | - | Paradox of the Evolution of Communication and of Social Interactivity - Cavalli-Sforza,Feldman | :: | 4 |
| 1996 | - | Niche construction - Odling-Smee,Laland,Feldman | :: | 4 |
| 1990 | - | On the pragmatics of contrast - Clark | :: | 3 |
| 1980 | - | The iconicity of grammar: isomorphism and motivation - Haiman | :: | 3 |
| 1981 | - | The Second Year - Kagan | :: | 3 |
| 1989 | - | Peacemaking among Primates - de Waal | :: | 3 |
| 1981 | - | Learning the evolutionarily stable strategy - Harley | :: | 2 |
| 1997 | - | Children's interpretations of homonyms: a developmental study - Mazzocco | :: | 2 |
| 1991 | - | The influence of linguistic context on young children-’s understanding of homophonic words - Beveridge,Marsh | :: | 1 |
| 1995 | - | Mutation and adaptation: the directed mutation controversy in evolutionary perspective - Sniegowski,Lenski | :: | 1 |
| 1997 | - | Perspective: a critique of Sewall Wright-’s shifting balance theory of evolution - Coyne,Barton,Turelli | :: | 1 |
| 1997 | - | Diana monkey long-distance calls: messages for conspecifics and predators - Zuberbuhler,Zuberbuhler | :: | 1 |
| 2000 | - | The exquisite corpse: a shifting view of the shifting balance - Whitlock,Phillips | :: | 1 |