| 1965 | - | Aspects of the Theory of Syntax - Chomsky | :: | 88 |
| 1997 | - | The Major Transitions in Evolution - Maynard-Smith,Szathmary | :: | 57 |
| 1989 | - | The Selfish Gene - Dawkins | :: | 54 |
| 1999 | - | The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition - Tomasello | :: | 23 |
| 1998 | - | Altruism, status, and the origin of relevance - Dessalles | :: | 17 |
| 1978 | - | How to Do Things with Words - Austin | :: | 12 |
| 1998 | - | Ritual/speech co-evolution: A 'selfish gene' solution to the problem of deception - Knight | :: | 7 |
| 1989 | - | Studies in the Way of Words - Grice | :: | 5 |
| 1996 | - | The Construction of Social Reality - Searle | :: | 5 |
| 1991 | - | Language and Symbolic Power - Bourdieu | :: | 4 |
| 2001 | - | Religion Explained - Boyer | :: | 3 |
| 1965 | - | The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life - Durkheim | :: | 3 |
| 1987 | - | Politeness: some universals in language usage - Brown,Levinson | :: | 3 |
| 1986 | - | Relevance - Sperber,Wilson | :: | 3 |
| 1980 | - | Language and tact - Leech | :: | 2 |
| 1997 | - | Female proto-symbolic strategies - Power,Aiello | :: | 2 |
| 1871 | - | Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family - Morgan | :: | 2 |
| 1960 | - | The Rites of Passage - Van Gennep | :: | 2 |
| 2005 | - | The Evolution of Animal Communication - Searcy,Nowicki | :: | 2 |
| 1989 | - | The Human Revolution: Behavioural and Biological Perspective in the Origins of Modern Humans - Mellars,Stringer | :: | 2 |
| 1999 | - | Trust - Stompka | :: | 2 |
| 1988 | - | Reflections on Primitive Communism - Lee | :: | 2 |
| 1987 | - | The Biology of Moral Systems - Alexander | :: | 2 |
| 1999 | - | The Evolution of Culture - Dunbar,Knight,Power | :: | 1 |
| 1991 | - | On the definition of sexual selection, Fisher's model, and the evolution of waste and of signals in general - Zahavi | :: | 1 |
| 1999 | - | Sex and Language as Pretend Play - Knight | :: | 1 |
| 2001 | - | Unique Morphology of the Human Eye and Its Adaptive Meaning: Comparative Studies on External Morphology of the Primate Eye - Kobayashi,Kohshima | :: | 1 |
| 1995 | - | The human symbolic revolution: A Darwinian account - Knight,Durkheim,Watts | :: | 1 |
| 1968 | - | Philosophical Investigations, trans - Wittgenstein | :: | 1 |
| 1991 | - | Blood Relations - Knight | :: | 1 |
| 1974 | - | Course in General Linguistics, trans - Saussure | :: | 1 |
| 1969 | - | The Elementary Structures of Kinship - Levi-Strauss | :: | 1 |
| 1996 | - | Good Natured - De Waal | :: | 1 |
| 2001 | - | Hierarchy in the Forest - Boehm | :: | 1 |