| 1994 | - | The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language - Pinker | :: | 120 |
| 1990 | - | Biological signals as handicaps - Grafen | :: | 29 |
| 2001 | - | Towards an evolutionary theory of language - Nowak,Komarova | :: | 26 |
| 1971 | - | The evolution of reciprocal altruism - Trivers | :: | 24 |
| 1998 | - | Altruism, status, and the origin of relevance - Dessalles | :: | 17 |
| 1981 | - | The evolution of cooperation - Axelrod,Hamilton | :: | 10 |
| 1966 | - | Adaptation and natural selection: A critique of some current evolutionary thought - Williams | :: | 9 |
| 1997 | - | The handicap principle - Zahavi,Zahavi | :: | 8 |
| 1998 | - | Theory of mind and the evolution of language - Dunbar | :: | 8 |
| 2000 | - | Language and hominid politics - Dessalles | :: | 7 |
| 2001 | - | Costly Signaling and Cooperation - Gintis,Smith,Bowles | :: | 2 |
| 1999 | - | Coalition factor in the evolution of non-kin altruism - Dessalles | :: | 2 |
| 1998 | - | Unto Others - Sober,Wilson | :: | 1 |
| 2005 | - | Market failure caused by quality uncertainty - Izquierdo,Izquierdo,Izquierdo,Izquierdo | :: | 1 |
| 1995 | - | Size and structure of freely forming conversational groups - Dunbar,Duncan,Nettle | :: | 1 |
| 2003 | - | Indirect selection and individual selection in sociobiology - Zahavi | :: | 1 |