| 1990 | - | Natural language and natural selection - Pinker,Bloom | :: | 137 |
| 1999 | - | The evolution of language - Nowak,Krakauer | :: | 74 |
| 2000 | - | The evolution of syntactic communication - Nowak,Plotkin,Jansen | :: | 69 |
| 2002 | - | The Faculty of Language: What Is It, Who Has It, and How Did It Evolve? - Hauser,Chomsky,Fitch | :: | 52 |
| 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 | - | Towards an evolutionary theory of language - Nowak,Komarova | :: | 23 |
| 1998 | - | Language within our grasp - Rizzolatti,Arbib | :: | 22 |
| 1999 | - | Syntax as an emergent characteristic of the evolution of semantic complexity - Schoenemann | :: | 15 |
| 2000 | - | The evolution of speech: a comparative review - Fitch | :: | 15 |
| 2003 | - | The Transmission of Language: models of biological and cultural evolution - Smith | :: | 13 |
| 2005 | - | The Faculty of Language: What's Special about it? - Pinker,Jackendoff | :: | 11 |
| 2000 | - | Evolutionary biology of language - Nowak | :: | 10 |
| 1999 | - | The Evolution of Language and Languages - Hurford | :: | 9 |
| 2003 | - | Language dynamics in finite populations - Komarova,Nowak | :: | 7 |
| 2003 | - | Simplicity as a Driving Force in Linguistic Evolution - Brighton | :: | 7 |
| 2003 | - | Situated cognition and the role of multi-agent models in explaining language structure - Brighton,Kirby,Smith | :: | 6 |
| 2005 | - | Cultural Selection for Learnability: Three principles underlying the view that language adapts to be learnable - Brighton,Kirby,Smith | :: | 5 |
| 2003 | - | Competitive Exclusion and Coexistence of Universal Grammars - Mitchener,Nowak | :: | 5 |
| 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 | - | Linguistic differences and language design - Baker | :: | 3 |
| 2001 | - | Major Transitions in Language Evolution - Plotkin,Nowak | :: | 2 |
| 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 |
| 2005 | - | Conceptual complexity and the brain: understanding language origins - Schoenemann | :: | |
| 2006 | - | Population dynamics of human language: a complex system - Komarova | :: | |
| 2006 | - | Embedded structure and the evolution of phonology - Brown,Golston | :: | |
| 2006 | - | Why talk? Speaking as selfish behaviour - Scott-Phillips | :: | |
| 2005 | - | The Evolution of Language: A Comparative Review - Fitch | :: | |
| 2007 | - | The emergence of simple languages in an experimental coordination game - Selten,Warglien | :: | |
| 2005 | - | Why talk: an Adaptationist Approach - Scott-Phillips | :: | |
| 2004 | - | Self-organization and Language Evolution: System, Population and Individual - Ke | :: | |
| 2007 | - | Language as Shaped by the Brain - Christiansen,Chater | :: | |