| 1997 | - | The synthetic modeling of language origins - Steels | :: | 123 |
| 1999 | - | The evolution of language - Nowak,Krakauer | :: | 93 |
| 2001 | - | Evolution of universal grammar - Nowak,Komarova,Niyogi | :: | 90 |
| 2002 | - | The Faculty of Language: What Is It, Who Has It, and How Did It Evolve? - Hauser,Chomsky,Fitch | :: | 82 |
| 2000 | - | The evolution of syntactic communication - Nowak,Plotkin,Jansen | :: | 81 |
| 1996 | - | Emergent Adaptive Lexicons - Steels | :: | 56 |
| 1999 | - | The evolutionary language game - Nowak,Plotkin,Krakauer | :: | 51 |
| 1998 | - | Synthesising the Origins of Language and Meaning Using Co-evolution, Self-organisation and Level formation - Steels | :: | 49 |
| 2002 | - | Computational and evolutionary aspects of language - Nowak,Komarova,Niyogi | :: | 49 |
| 2001 | - | Establishing Communication Systems without Explicit Meaning Transmission - Smith | :: | 28 |
| 2001 | - | Towards an evolutionary theory of language - Nowak,Komarova | :: | 26 |
| 2005 | - | Language evolution and population dynamics in a system of two interacting species - Kosmidis,Halley,Argyrakis | :: | 22 |
| 2006 | - | The Computational Nature of Language Learning and Evolution - Niyogi | :: | 18 |
| 1999 | - | The Spontaneous Self-organization of an Adaptive Language - Steels | :: | 17 |
| 2004 | - | The evolution of vocabulary - Smith | :: | 17 |
| 2003 | - | Language Evolution: Consensus and Controversies - Christiansen,Kirby | :: | 14 |
| 2005 | - | The emergence and evolution of linguistic structure: from lexical to grammatical communication systems - Steels | :: | 12 |
| 2000 | - | Evolutionary biology of language - Nowak | :: | 11 |
| 2000 | - | The basic reproductive ratio of a word, the maximum size of a lexicon - Nowak | :: | 10 |
| 2005 | - | Language as an evolutionary system - Brighton,Smith,Kirby | :: | 10 |
| 2001 | - | Cost and conflict in animal signals and human language - Lachmann,Szamado,Bergstrom | :: | 8 |
| 1997 | - | The origins of syntax in visually grounded robotic agents - Steels | :: | 7 |
| 2003 | - | The Language Mosaic and its Evolution - Hurford | :: | 7 |
| 2003 | - | Situated cognition and the role of multi-agent models in explaining language structure - Brighton,Kirby,Smith | :: | 6 |
| 2003 | - | The Evolution of Communication Systems by Adaptive Agents - Steels | :: | 5 |
| 2008 | - | Cultural evolution: implications for understanding the human language faculty and its evolution - Smith,Kirby | :: | 4 |
| 2000 | - | Evolution of syntax in groups of agents - Zuidema | :: | 4 |
| 1996 | - | Is There Any Intermediate Stage Between Animal Communication and Language? - Ujhelyi | :: | 4 |
| 2003 | - | Evolving Communication through the Inference of Meaning - Smith | :: | 3 |
| 2008 | - | Cumulative cultural evolution in the laboratory: An experimental approach to the origins of structure in human language - Kirby,Cornish,Smith | :: | 3 |
| 2005 | - | Syntax for free? - Sole | :: | 3 |
| 2005 | - | Language Networks: their structure, function and evolution - Sole,Corominas,Valverde,Steels | :: | 2 |
| 2001 | - | Major Transitions in Language Evolution - Plotkin,Nowak | :: | 2 |
| 2008 | - | Cultural route to the emergence of linguistic categories - Puglisi,Baronchelli,Loreto | :: | 2 |
| 2005 | - | The Evolution of Language: A Comparative Review - Fitch | :: | 2 |
| 2005 | - | Design and Performance of Pre-Grammatical Language Games - Van Looveren | :: | 1 |
| 2007 | - | The evolution of language - Kirby | :: | 1 |
| 2006 | - | Evolution as a Constraint on Theories of Syntax: The Case against Minimalism - Parker | :: | 1 |
| 2006 | - | Population dynamics of human language: a complex system - Komarova | :: | 1 |
| 2006 | - | Selective scenarios for the emergence of natural language - Szamado,Szathmary | :: | 1 |
| 2001 | - | From Cultural Selection to Genetic Selection: A Framework for the Evolution of Language - Dor,Jablonka | :: | 1 |
| 2002 | - | From Perception to Language: Grounding Formal Syntax in an Almost Real World - De Beule,Van Looveren,Zuidema | :: | |
| 2007 | - | Evolutionary robotics: emergence of communication - Lipson | :: | |
| 2000 | - | A brief history of the past three billion years: Review of ``The Origins of Life: From the Birth of Life to the Origin of Language'', by John Maynard Smith and EöSzathmá, 1999 - Pinker | :: | |
| 2009 | - | Restrictions on biological adaptation in language evolution - Chater,Reali,Christiansen | :: | |
| 2006 | - | Language co-evolved with the rule of law - Knight | :: | |
| 2001 | - | The Peacock, the Sparrow, and the Evolution of Human Language - Bergstrom,Antia,Számadó,Lachmann | :: | |
| 2008 | - | Unravelling Digital Infinity - Knight,Power | :: | |
| 2001 | - | Sciences of complexity and language origins: an alternative to natural selection - Longa | :: | |
| 1999 | - | Social patterns restrict evolving patterns - Zuidema | :: | |
| 2002 | - | Did language evolve like the vertebrate eye? - Botha | :: | |
| 1999 | - | Meaning as use: Transmission fidelity and evolution in NetNews - Best,Pocklington | :: | |
| 2008 | - | Language co-evolved with the rule of law - Knight | :: | |
| 2000 | - | In Humboldt's footsteps - Szathmary | :: | |
| 2006 | - | Computational Approaches to Linguistic Consensus - Wang | :: | |
| 2001 | - | Language's place in nature - Stumpf | :: | |
| 2006 | - | Scaling laws in language evolution - Sole | :: | |