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| 1994 | - | The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language - Pinker | :: | 96 |
| 1999 | - | The evolution of language - Nowak,Krakauer | :: | 74 |
| 1997 | - | The Evolution of Communication - Hauser | :: | 74 |
| 1965 | - | Aspects of the Theory of Syntax - Chomsky | :: | 72 |
| 1998 | - | Approaches to the Evolution of Language: Social and Cognitive Bases - Hurford,Studdert-Kennedy,Knight | :: | 50 |
| 1997 | - | The Major Transitions in Evolution - Maynard-Smith,Szathmary | :: | 44 |
| 1990 | - | How monkeys see the world: Inside the mind of another species - Cheney,Seyfarth | :: | 42 |
| 1972 | - | Language and Mind - Chomsky | :: | 40 |
| 1998 | - | Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language - Dunbar | :: | 37 |
| 1984 | - | The Biology and Evolution of Language - Lieberman | :: | 36 |
| 1935 | - | The Psychobiology of Language - Zipf | :: | 12 |
| 1997 | - | The Architecture of the Language Faculty - Jackendoff | :: | 11 |
| 1989 | - | Primate calls, human language, and nonverbal communication - Burling | :: | 10 |
| 1988 | - | Language and Problems of Knowledge: The Managua Lectures - Chomsky | :: | 9 |
| 1990 | - | Species and Language - Bickerton | :: | 6 |
| 1970 | - | Birdsong and speech development: could there be parallels - Marler | :: | 6 |
| 1967 | - | The Dance Language and Orientation of Bees - von Frisch | :: | 3 |
| 1985 | - | Gavagai! or the future history of the animal language controversy - Premack | :: | 3 |
| 1972 | - | Animal communication - Wilson | :: | 3 |
| 1972 | - | Linguistic Variability and Intellectual Development - von Humboldt | :: | 2 |
| 1987 | - | Learning by instinct - Gould,Marler | :: | 2 |
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