| 1990 | - | Nativist and functional explanations in language acquisition - Hurford | :: | 26 |
| 1997 | - | Genes, peoples and languages - Cavalli-Sforza | :: | 11 |
| 1859 | - | On the Origin of Species - Darwin | :: | 9 |
| 1988 | - | Reconstruction of human evolution: bringing together genetic, archaeological, and linguistic data - Cavalli-Sforza,Piazza,Menozzi,Mountain | :: | 8 |
| 2007 | - | Quantifying the evolutionary dynamics of language - Lieberman,Michel,Jackson,Tang,Nowak | :: | 7 |
| 2007 | - | Frequency of word-use predicts rates of lexical evolution throughout Indo-European history - Pagel,Atkinson,Meade | :: | 7 |
| 1992 | - | Coevolution of genes and languages revisited - Cavalli-Sforza,Minch,Mountain | :: | 4 |
| 2008 | - | Languages Evolve in Punctuational Bursts - Atkinson,Meade,Venditti,Greenhill,Pagel | :: | 3 |
| 1996 | - | Gene-culture coevolutionary theory - Feldman,Laland | :: | 2 |
| 2008 | - | Natural selection and cultural rates of change - Rogers,Ehrlich | :: | 2 |
| 1983 | - | Cultural versus genetic adaptation - Cavalli-Sforza,Feldman | :: | 1 |
| 2004 | - | Is human cultural evolution Darwinian - Mesoudi | :: | 1 |
| 2006 | - | Large punctuational contribution of speciation to evolutionary divergence at the molecular level - Pagel | :: | 1 |