| 1994 | - | The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language - Pinker | :: | 120 |
| 1999 | - | The evolution of language - Nowak,Krakauer | :: | 93 |
| 2000 | - | The evolution of syntactic communication - Nowak,Plotkin,Jansen | :: | 81 |
| 1996 | - | The dilemma of Saussurean communication - Oliphant | :: | 60 |
| 1976 | - | The selfish gene - Dawkins | :: | 54 |
| 1999 | - | The evolutionary language game - Nowak,Plotkin,Krakauer | :: | 51 |
| 1994 | - | Altruism in the evolution of communication - Ackley,Littman | :: | 39 |
| 1998 | - | Fitness and the selective adaptation of language - Kirby | :: | 33 |
| 1990 | - | Biological signals as handicaps - Grafen | :: | 29 |
| 1984 | - | Animal signals: mind-reading and manipulation - Krebs,Dawkins | :: | 25 |
| 1984 | - | The evolution of cooperation - Axelrod | :: | 21 |
| 1999 | - | An error limit for the evolution of language - Nowak,Krakauer,Dress | :: | 19 |
| 1964 | - | The genetical evolution of social behaviour - Hamilton | :: | 14 |
| 2002 | - | The Evolution of Dialect Diversity - Livingstone | :: | 12 |
| 1999 | - | Cooperation, conflict and the evolution of communication - Noble | :: | 11 |
| 1998 | - | Evolved Signals: Expensive Hype vs. Conspirational Whispers - Noble | :: | 10 |
| 1981 | - | The evolution of cooperation - Axelrod,Hamilton | :: | 10 |
| 2000 | - | Cooperative Strategies and the Evolution of Communication - Wagner | :: | 9 |
| 2000 | - | Error, Population Structure and the Origin of Diverse Sign Systems - Grassly,von Haeseler,Krakauer | :: | 9 |
| 2001 | - | Cost and conflict in animal signals and human language - Lachmann,Szamado,Bergstrom | :: | 8 |
| 1997 | - | The Cambridge encyclopedia of language - Crystal | :: | 6 |
| 2000 | - | Evolution of Communication with a Spatialized Genetic Algorithm - Grim,Kokalis,Tafti,Kilb | :: | 5 |
| 1991 | - | Signalling of need by offspring to their parents - Godfray | :: | 5 |
| 2001 | - | Conditions Enabling the Evolution of Inter-Agent Signaling in an Artificial World - Reggia,Schulz,Wilkinson,Uriagereka | :: | 5 |
| 1997 | - | The evolution of cooperation in a lattice-structured population - Nakamaru,Matsuda,Iwasa | :: | 5 |
| 1995 | - | Spatial structure and the evolution of honest cost-free signalling - Krakauer,Pagel | :: | 5 |
| 1994 | - | Must reliable signals always be costly - Maynard-Smith | :: | 4 |
| 2000 | - | Ecological symmetry breaking can favour the evolution of altruism in an action--response game - Di Paolo | :: | 3 |
| 1993 | - | The fallacy of conventional signalling - Zahavi | :: | 3 |
| 2002 | - | Adaptive Factors in the Evolution of Signaling Systems - Noble,Paolo,Bullock | :: | 3 |
| 1998 | - | The unit of selection in viscous populations and the evolution of altruism - Van Baalen,Rand | :: | 3 |
| 1998 | - | Signalling among relatives - Lachmann,Bergstrom | :: | 2 |
| 1992 | - | Statistical mechanics of population: the lattice Lotka--Volterra model - Matsuda,Ogita,Sasaki,Sato | :: | 1 |
| 2001 | - | Dangerous liaisons: the ecology of private interest and common good - Van Baalen,Jansen | :: | 1 |
| 2000 | - | Pair approximations for different geometries - Van Baalen | :: | 1 |
| 1993 | - | Why we need ESS signalling theory - Grafen,Johnstone | :: | 1 |
| 1993 | - | Evolution: a biological and palaeontological approach - Skelton | :: | 1 |
| 1992 | - | The continuous Sir Philip Sidney game: a simple model of biological signaling - Johnstone,Grafen | :: | 1 |
| 1999 | - | Correlation equations and pair approximations for spatial ecologies - Rand | :: | 1 |
| 2000 | - | On the advantages of information sharing - Lachmann,Sella,Jablonka | :: | 1 |
| 1994 | - | The alternating Prisoner-’s Dilemma - Nowak,Sigmund | :: | 1 |
| 2000 | - | Predator--prey dynamics across spatial scales: the role of space in reducing population cycles - Jansen,de Roos | :: | 1 |
| 1988 | - | Lecture notes on particle systems and percolation - Durrett | :: | 1 |
| 1995 | - | Population persistence and spatially limited social interaction - Harada,Ezoe,Iwasa,Matsuda,Sato | :: | 1 |