| 1992 | - | Evolution of Communication in Artificial Organisms - Werner,Dyer | :: | 75 |
| 1996 | - | The dilemma of Saussurean communication - Oliphant | :: | 54 |
| 1976 | - | The Selfish Gene - Dawkins | :: | 43 |
| 1993 | - | Synthetic Ethology and the Evolution of Cooperative Communication - MacLennan,Burghardt | :: | 38 |
| 1994 | - | Altruism in the evolution of communication - Ackley,Littman | :: | 36 |
| 1984 | - | Animal signals: Mind reading and manipulation - Krebs,Dawkins | :: | 21 |
| 1990 | - | Biological signals as handicaps - Grafen | :: | 20 |
| 1975 | - | Mate selection---A selection for a handicap - Zahavi | :: | 17 |
| 1984 | - | The Evolution of Cooperation - Axelrod | :: | 17 |
| 1971 | - | The evolution of reciprocal altruism - Trivers | :: | 17 |
| 1998 | - | An investigation into the evolution of communication - Di~Paolo | :: | 16 |
| 1964 | - | The genetical evolution of social behaviour - Hamilton | :: | 12 |
| 1966 | - | Adaptation and Natural Selection - Williams | :: | 11 |
| 1997 | - | An Exploration of Signalling Behaviour by both Analytic and Simulation Means for both Discrete and Continuous Models - Bullock | :: | 11 |
| 1995 | - | Communication in discrete action-response games - Hurd | :: | 10 |
| 1995 | - | Animal signals: Models and terminology - Maynard-Smith,Harper | :: | 8 |
| 1981 | - | The Evolution of Cooperation - Axelrod,Hamilton | :: | 7 |
| 1974 | - | Parent-offspring conflict - Trivers | :: | 7 |
| 1980 | - | Monkey Responses to Three Different Alarm Calls: Evidence of Predator Classification and Semantic Communication - Seyfarth,Cheney,Marler | :: | 6 |
| 1995 | - | How not to murder your neighbor: Using synthetic behavioral ecology to study aggressive signaling - Wheeler,de Bourcier | :: | 5 |
| 1977 | - | Nepotism and the Evolution of Alarm Calls - Sherman | :: | 5 |
| 1981 | - | Animal signals: Ethological and games-theory approaches are not incompatible - Hinde | :: | 4 |
| 1987 | - | Acquisition of Information in Contests: The Gulf Between Theory and Biology - Caryl | :: | 3 |
| 1991 | - | Receiver psychology and the evolution of animal signals - Guilford,Dawkins | :: | 3 |
| 1991 | - | The evolution of costly mate preferences II - Iwasa,Pomiankowski,Nee | :: | 2 |
| 1994 | - | Honest signalling, perceptual error and the evolution of `all-or-nothing' displays - Johnstone | :: | 1 |
| 1993 | - | Sexual selection and signal evolution: the ghost of biases past - Ryan,Rand | :: | 1 |
| 1987 | - | The Theory of Signal Selection and Some of its Implications - Zahavi | :: | 1 |