| 1999 | - | The evolution of language - Nowak,Krakauer | :: | 74 |
| 2001 | - | Evolution of universal grammar - Nowak,Komarova,Niyogi | :: | 71 |
| 2000 | - | The evolution of syntactic communication - Nowak,Plotkin,Jansen | :: | 69 |
| 1998 | - | The emergence of a language in an evolving population of neural networks - Cangelosi,Parisi | :: | 57 |
| 2002 | - | The Faculty of Language: What Is It, Who Has It, and How Did It Evolve? - Hauser,Chomsky,Fitch | :: | 52 |
| 1997 | - | Learning and the emergence of coordinated communication - Oliphant,Batali | :: | 52 |
| 2002 | - | Natural Language from Artificial Life - Kirby | :: | 50 |
| 1999 | - | The evolutionary language game - Nowak,Plotkin,Krakauer | :: | 41 |
| 1999 | - | The learning barrier: Moving from innate to learned systems of communication - Oliphant | :: | 38 |
| 2002 | - | Computational and evolutionary aspects of language - Nowak,Komarova,Niyogi | :: | 31 |
| 2001 | - | The evolutionary dynamics of grammar acquisition - Komarova,Niyogi,Nowak | :: | 28 |
| 2001 | - | Towards an evolutionary theory of language - Nowak,Komarova | :: | 23 |
| 1997 | - | Formal Approaches to Innate and Learned Communication: Laying the Foundation for Language - Oliphant | :: | 23 |
| 2001 | - | Evolution of communication and language using signals, symbols, and words - Cangelosi | :: | 22 |
| 1999 | - | Possible stages in the evolution of the language capacity - Jackendoff | :: | 21 |
| 2001 | - | The evolutionary dynamics of the lexical matrix - Komarova,Nowak | :: | 18 |
| 2003 | - | Least effort and the origins of scaling in human language - Ferrer-i-Cancho,Sole | :: | 17 |
| 1999 | - | An error limit for the evolution of language - Nowak,Krakauer,Dress | :: | 17 |
| 1999 | - | Modeling the evolution of communication: From stimulus associations to grounded symbolic associations - Cangelosi | :: | 17 |
| 1999 | - | Self-Organisation in Vowel Systems - de Boer | :: | 15 |
| 2000 | - | The evolution of speech: a comparative review - Fitch | :: | 15 |
| 2003 | - | The Transmission of Language: models of biological and cultural evolution - Smith | :: | 13 |
| 2003 | - | Progress in the simulation of emergent communication and language - Wagner,Reggia,Uriagereka,Wilkinson | :: | 12 |
| 2002 | - | Self-organization and selection in the emergence of vocabulary - Ke,Minett,Au,Wang | :: | 11 |
| 2005 | - | The Faculty of Language: What's Special about it? - Pinker,Jackendoff | :: | 11 |
| 2000 | - | Language evolution and information theory - Plotkin,Nowak | :: | 11 |
| 1997 | - | Too many love songs: Sexual selection and the evolution of communication - Werner,Todd | :: | 11 |
| 2005 | - | From monkey-like action recognition to human language: An evolutionary framework for neurolinguistics - Arbib | :: | 11 |
| 2000 | - | Autonomous Formation of Concepts and Communication - de Jong | :: | 10 |
| 2000 | - | Evolutionary biology of language - Nowak | :: | 10 |
| 2002 | - | Natural selection and cultural selection in the evolution of communication - Smith | :: | 10 |
| 1997 | - | Usage-based Structuralization of Relationships between Words - Hashimoto | :: | 9 |
| 2004 | - | The evolution of vocabulary - Smith | :: | 9 |
| 2000 | - | The basic reproductive ratio of a word, the maximum size of a lexicon - Nowak | :: | 9 |
| 2000 | - | Cooperative Strategies and the Evolution of Communication - Wagner | :: | 8 |
| 2003 | - | Simplicity as a Driving Force in Linguistic Evolution - Brighton | :: | 7 |
| 2006 | - | The Computational Nature of Language Learning and Evolution - Niyogi | :: | 7 |
| 2002 | - | Learning and the evolution of language: The role of cultural variation and learning costs in the Baldwin Effect - Munroe,Cangelosi | :: | 6 |
| 2003 | - | Situated cognition and the role of multi-agent models in explaining language structure - Brighton,Kirby,Smith | :: | 6 |
| 2002 | - | Computer Simulation: A New Scientific Approach to the Study of Language Evolution - Cangelosi,Parisi | :: | 6 |
| 2003 | - | The Language Mosaic and its Evolution - Hurford | :: | 5 |
| 2005 | - | The evolution of the language faculty: Clarifications and implications - Fitch,Hauser,Chomsky | :: | 5 |
| 2003 | - | Competitive Exclusion and Coexistence of Universal Grammars - Mitchener,Nowak | :: | 5 |
| 2001 | - | Conditions Enabling the Evolution of Inter-Agent Signaling in an Artificial World - Reggia,Schulz,Wilkinson,Uriagereka | :: | 5 |
| 2004 | - | Chaos and Language - Mitchener,Nowak | :: | 5 |
| 2005 | - | Decoding least effort and scaling in signal frequency distributions - Ferrer-i-Cancho | :: | 5 |
| 2004 | - | Optimizing the mutual intelligibility of linguistic agents in a shared world - Komarova,Niyogi | :: | 5 |
| 2005 | - | How can we explain the emergence of a language that benefits the hearer but not the speaker? - Mirolli,Parisi | :: | 4 |
| 2004 | - | Computational studies of language evolution - Wang,Ke,Minett | :: | 4 |
| 2002 | - | On the nature and evolution of the neural bases of human language - Lieberman | :: | 4 |
| 2002 | - | Comparative Vocal Production and the Evolution of Speech: Reinterpreting the Descent of the Larynx - Fitch | :: | 3 |
| 2003 | - | Evolving Communication through the Inference of Meaning - Smith | :: | 3 |
| 2003 | - | Launching language: The gestural origin of discrete infinity - Studdert-Kennedy,Goldstein | :: | 3 |
| 2005 | - | Coevolution of lexicon and syntax from a simulation perspective - Gong,Minett,Ke,Holland,Wang | :: | 2 |
| 2006 | - | Language and life history: A new perspective on the development and evolution of human language - Locke,Bogin | :: | 2 |
| 2001 | - | Major Transitions in Language Evolution - Plotkin,Nowak | :: | 2 |
| 2004 | - | The immune syntax: the evolution of the language virus - Piatelli-Palmarini,Uriagereka | :: | 1 |
| 2004 | - | The Effects of Learning on the Evolution of Saussurean Communication - Vallejo,Taylor | :: | 1 |
| 2003 | - | A Mathematical Model of Human Languages: The Interaction of Game Dynamics and Learning Processes - Mitchener | :: | 1 |
| 2005 | - | The Major Transitions in the Evolution of Language - Zuidema | :: | 1 |
| 2006 | - | Computational simulation on the co-evolution of compositionality and regularity - Gong,Minett,Wang | :: | 1 |
| 2006 | - | Population dynamics of human language: a complex system - Komarova | :: | |
| 2006 | - | Embedded structure and the evolution of phonology - Brown,Golston | :: | |
| 2006 | - | Selective scenarios for the emergence of natural language - Szamado,Szathmary | :: | |
| 2004 | - | Theoretical and Methodological Tools for Comparison and Evolutionary Modeling of Communication Systems - Oller,Griebel | :: | |
| 2006 | - | Emergence of communication in teams of embodied and situated agents - Marocco,Nolfi | :: | |
| 2003 | - | Computer Models of the Evolution of Language and Languages - Livingstone | :: | |
| 2005 | - | The Evolution of Language: A Comparative Review - Fitch | :: | |
| 2002 | - | From quasispecies to universal grammar - Nowak | :: | |
| 2004 | - | Self-organization and Language Evolution: System, Population and Individual - Ke | :: | |
| 2007 | - | Game Dynamics with Learning and Evolution of Universal Grammar - Mitchener | :: | |
| 2006 | - | A comparison of the articulatory parameters involved in the production of sound of bonobos and modern humans - Demolin,Delvaux | :: | |
| 2005 | - | Evolution of Speech and Its Acquisition - de Boer | :: | |
| 2005 | - | Using mathematical models of language experimentally - O'Donnell,Hauser,Fitch | :: | |