| 1990 | - | Natural language and natural selection - Pinker,Bloom | :: | 168 |
| 1990 | - | Language and Species - Bickerton | :: | 87 |
| 1992 | - | Evolution of Communication in Artificial Organisms - Werner,Dyer | :: | 82 |
| 1997 | - | The Major Transitions in Evolution - Maynard-Smith,Szathmary | :: | 57 |
| 1992 | - | Synthetic Ethology: An approach to the study of communication - MacLennan | :: | 56 |
| 1996 | - | Emergent Adaptive Lexicons - Steels | :: | 56 |
| 1980 | - | Rules and Representations - Chomsky | :: | 55 |
| 1976 | - | The Selfish Gene - Dawkins | :: | 54 |
| 1996 | - | Perceptually Grounded Meaning Creation - Steels | :: | 47 |
| 1996 | - | A self-organizing spatial vocabulary - Steels | :: | 46 |
| 1994 | - | Innate biases and critical periods: Combining evolution and learning in the acquisition of syntax - Batali | :: | 46 |
| 1982 | - | Evolution and the Theory of Games - Maynard-Smith | :: | 44 |
| 1974 | - | Philosophical Investigations - Wittgenstein | :: | 29 |
| 1980 | - | The Evolution of Cooperation - Axelrod | :: | 21 |
| 1975 | - | The Language of Thought - Fodor | :: | 19 |
| 1999 | - | The Spontaneous Self-organization of an Adaptive Language - Steels | :: | 17 |
| 1995 | - | Artificial Life - Langton | :: | 15 |
| 1995 | - | Language and Human Behavior - Bickerton | :: | 15 |
| 1994 | - | Understanding Language Change - McMahon | :: | 11 |
| 1995 | - | Evolution of Symbolic Grammar Systems - Hashimoto,Ikegami | :: | 9 |
| 1986 | - | Phonetic universals in vowel systems - Lindblom | :: | 9 |
| 1984 | - | Order Out of Chaos - Prigogine,Stengers | :: | 7 |
| 1985 | - | Exploring Complexity - Nicolis,Prigogine | :: | 6 |
| 1993 | - | The origins of order - Kauffman | :: | 4 |
| 1997 | - | The foundations of Human Language - Aiello | :: | 4 |
| 1995 | - | Cooperation and Community Structure in Artificial Ecosystems - Lindgren,Nordahl | :: | 3 |
| 1978 | - | Learning How To Mean - Halliday | :: | 3 |
| 1993 | - | The origin of chromosomes I - Maynard-Smith,Szathmary | :: | 1 |
| 1996 | - | Experiments in Emergent phonology - Steels,de Boer | :: | 1 |
| 1983 | - | Advanced Synergetics: Instability Hierarchies of Self-Organising Systems and Devices - Haken | :: | 1 |
| 1996 | - | The co-evolution of words and meanings - Steels | :: | 1 |
| 1981 | - | The origin of genetic information - Eigen | :: | 1 |
| 1992 | - | Chaos and Fractals - Peitgen,Jurgens,Saupe | :: | 1 |
| 1996 | - | The Birth of Complex Cells - de Duve | :: | 1 |