| 1990 | - | Natural language and natural selection - Pinker,Bloom | :: | 137 |
| 1994 | - | The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language - Pinker | :: | 96 |
| 1989 | - | Biological evolution of the Saussurean sign as a component of the language acquisition device - Hurford | :: | 88 |
| 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 |
| 1996 | - | The dilemma of Saussurean communication - Oliphant | :: | 54 |
| 1997 | - | The Major Transitions in Evolution - Maynard-Smith,Szathmary | :: | 44 |
| 1999 | - | The evolutionary language game - Nowak,Plotkin,Krakauer | :: | 41 |
| 1995 | - | Communication in discrete action-response games - Hurd | :: | 10 |
| 2000 | - | Error, Population Structure and the Origin of Diverse Sign Systems - Grassly,von Haeseler,Krakauer | :: | 8 |
| 1899 | - | The Theory of the Leisure Class - Veblen | :: | 3 |
| 2000 | - | Economics and Language - Rubinstein | :: | 3 |
| 2000 | - | Survival of the Clearest - Pinker | :: | 2 |
| 1978 | - | New Sci - Zahavi | :: | 1 |
| 1997 | - | Trends Ecol - Kilner,Johnstone | :: | 1 |
| 1995 | - | Trends Ecol - Caro | :: | 1 |
| 1987 | - | Trends Ecol - Whitfield | :: | 1 |
| 1982 | - | Am - Rohwer | :: | 1 |
| 1975 | - | Behavior 61 - Rohwer | :: | 1 |