| 1995 | - | A self-organizing spatial vocabulary - Steels | :: | 46 |
| 1971 | - | The evolution of reciprocal altruism - Trivers | :: | 24 |
| 1981 | - | The evolution of cooperation - Axelrod,Hamilton | :: | 10 |
| 2000 | - | Language and hominid politics - Dessalles | :: | 7 |
| 1982 | - | Strategic information transmission - Crawford,Sobel | :: | 6 |
| 1991 | - | Blood relations: Menstruation and the origins of culture - Knight | :: | 4 |
| 2008 | - | Sociality is a crucial prerequisite for the emergence of language - Steels | :: | 1 |
| 2006 | - | Why talk? Speaking as selfish behaviour - Scott-Phillips | :: | 1 |