| 1998 | - | Computational simulations of the emergence of grammar - Batali | :: | 90 |
| 1999 | - | The evolution of language - Nowak,Krakauer | :: | 74 |
| 2002 | - | Learning, Bottlenecks and the Evolution of Recursive Syntax - Kirby | :: | 71 |
| 2000 | - | The evolution of syntactic communication - Nowak,Plotkin,Jansen | :: | 69 |
| 2000 | - | Syntax without Natural Selection: How compositionality emerges from vocabulary in a population of learners - Kirby | :: | 69 |
| 1997 | - | Learning and the emergence of coordinated communication - Oliphant,Batali | :: | 52 |
| 1999 | - | The evolutionary language game - Nowak,Plotkin,Krakauer | :: | 41 |
| 1999 | - | The learning barrier: Moving from innate to learned systems of communication - Oliphant | :: | 38 |
| 2001 | - | Evolution of communication and language using signals, symbols, and words - Cangelosi | :: | 22 |
| 2001 | - | The evolutionary dynamics of the lexical matrix - Komarova,Nowak | :: | 18 |
| 1999 | - | Linguistic Diversity - Nettle | :: | 15 |
| 2001 | - | The Importance of Rapid Cultural Convergence in the Evolution of Learned Symbolic Communication - Smith | :: | 8 |
| 2001 | - | Conditions Enabling the Evolution of Inter-Agent Signaling in an Artificial World - Reggia,Schulz,Wilkinson,Uriagereka | :: | 5 |
| 1931 | - | Evolution in mendelian populations - Wright | :: | 4 |
| 1980 | - | Multidimensional scaling, tree-fitting, and clustering - Shepard | :: | 1 |
| 1968 | - | A migration matrix model for the study of random genetic drift - Bodmer,Cavalli-Sforza | :: | 1 |
| 1992 | - | Linguitics Diversity in Space and Time - Nichols | :: | 1 |
| 1997 | - | The rise and falls of languages - Dixon | :: | 1 |