| 1997 | - | The synthetic modeling of language origins - Steels | :: | 107 |
| 2002 | - | The Faculty of Language: What Is It, Who Has It, and How Did It Evolve? - Hauser,Chomsky,Fitch | :: | 52 |
| 2001 | - | Towards an evolutionary theory of language - Nowak,Komarova | :: | 23 |
| 1999 | - | Possible stages in the evolution of the language capacity - Jackendoff | :: | 21 |
| 1999 | - | An error limit for the evolution of language - Nowak,Krakauer,Dress | :: | 17 |
| 2002 | - | Grounding Symbols through Evolutionary Language Games - Steels | :: | 12 |
| 2000 | - | The basic reproductive ratio of a word, the maximum size of a lexicon - Nowak | :: | 9 |
| 2004 | - | Patterns in syntactic dependency networks - Ferrer-i-Cancho,Sole | :: | 8 |
| 2002 | - | Grounding the Mirror System Hypothesis for the Evolution of the Language-Ready Brain - Arbib | :: | 6 |
| 2002 | - | Computer Simulation: A New Scientific Approach to the Study of Language Evolution - Cangelosi,Parisi | :: | 6 |
| 2005 | - | The consequences of Zipf's law for syntax and symbolic reference - Ferrer-i-Cancho,Riordan,Bollobas | :: | 6 |
| 2006 | - | Language and life history: A new perspective on the development and evolution of human language - Locke,Bogin | :: | 2 |
| 2001 | - | From Cultural Selection to Genetic Selection: A Framework for the Evolution of Language - Dor,Jablonka | :: | 1 |
| 2002 | - | From quasispecies to universal grammar - Nowak | :: | |
| 2003 | - | Universality in syntactic dependencies - Ferrer-i-Cancho,Sole,Kohler | :: | |
| 2006 | - | Population dynamics of human language: a complex system - Komarova | :: | |