| 1990 | - | Natural language and natural selection - Pinker,Bloom | :: | 137 |
| 1997 | - | The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain - Deacon | :: | 116 |
| 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 |
| 1980 | - | Rules and representations - Chomsky | :: | 47 |
| 1990 | - | How monkeys see the world: Inside the mind of another species - Cheney,Seyfarth | :: | 42 |
| 1999 | - | The evolutionary language game - Nowak,Plotkin,Krakauer | :: | 41 |
| 1982 | - | Evolution and the theory of games - Maynard-Smith | :: | 39 |
| 1990 | - | Uniquely Human: The evolution of speech, thought and selfless behavior - Lieberman | :: | 16 |
| 2000 | - | Language evolution and information theory - Plotkin,Nowak | :: | 11 |
| 1998 | - | Evolutionary games and population dynamics - Hofbauer,Sigmund | :: | 9 |
| 1949 | - | The mathematical theory of communication - Shannon,Weaver | :: | 7 |
| 1990 | - | Species and language - Bickerton | :: | 6 |
| 1975 | - | Re-Łections on language - Chomsky | :: | 6 |
| 1977 | - | The behaviour of communicating - Smith | :: | 6 |
| 1970 | - | Birdsong and speech development: could there be parallels - Marler | :: | 6 |
| 1981 | - | Language and speech - Miller | :: | 4 |
| 1967 | - | The dance language and orientation of bees - Frisch | :: | 3 |
| 1980 | - | Codingand information theory - Hamming | :: | 2 |
| 1996 | - | Essays on game theory - Nash | :: | 2 |
| 1988 | - | Codes and cryptography - Welsh | :: | 2 |
| 1999 | - | The continuous prisoner's dilemma - Wahl,Nowak | :: | 1 |
| 1996 | - | Adaptive dynamics: a geometrical study of the consequences of nearly faithful reproduction - Metz,Geritz,Meszena,Jacobs,Van Heerwaarden | :: | 1 |
| 1990 | - | The evolution of reactive strategies in iterated games - Nowak,Sigmund | :: | 1 |