| 1994 | - | The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language - Pinker | :: | 120 |
| 2001 | - | Evolution of universal grammar - Nowak,Komarova,Niyogi | :: | 90 |
| 2001 | - | Language games for autonomous robots - Steels | :: | 33 |
| 2001 | - | The evolutionary dynamics of grammar acquisition - Komarova,Niyogi,Nowak | :: | 33 |
| 1998 | - | Fitness and the selective adaptation of language - Kirby | :: | 33 |
| 1998 | - | Stochasticity as a source of innovation in language games - Steels,Kaplan | :: | 30 |
| 1992 | - | An adaptive communication protocol for cooperating mobile robots - Yanco,Stein | :: | 27 |
| 1999 | - | Modelling the Evolution of Linguistic Diversity - Livingstone,Fyfe | :: | 22 |
| 1999 | - | An error limit for the evolution of language - Nowak,Krakauer,Dress | :: | 19 |
| 2001 | - | Children creating language: how Nicaraguan sign language acquired a spatial grammar - Senghas,Coppola | :: | 16 |
| 2002 | - | Natural selection and cultural selection in the evolution of communication - Smith | :: | 12 |
| 1997 | - | Genes, peoples and languages - Cavalli-Sforza | :: | 11 |
| 1994 | - | Understanding Language Change - McMahon | :: | 11 |
| 1999 | - | Creation through contact: Sign language emergence and sign language change in nicaragua - Kegl,Senghas,Coppola | :: | 10 |
| 1996 | - | A Simple Model for the Evolution of Communication - Arita,Taylor | :: | 9 |
| 2000 | - | Error, Population Structure and the Origin of Diverse Sign Systems - Grassly,von Haeseler,Krakauer | :: | 9 |
| 1994 | - | The History and Geography of Human Genes - Cavalli-Sforza,Menozzi,Piazza | :: | 8 |
| 2003 | - | Parallel extinction risk and global distribution of languages and species - Sutherland | :: | 4 |
| 2004 | - | Self-organization in sensor networks - Collier,Taylor | :: | 2 |
| 1996 | - | Language History, Language Change, and Language Relationship: An Introduction to Historical and Comparative Linguistics - Hock,Joseph | :: | 2 |
| 2001 | - | The evolution of birdsong: male and female response to song innovation in swamp sparrows - Nowicki,Searcy,Hughes,Podos | :: | 1 |
| 2003 | - | Social Language Learning - Steels | :: | 1 |
| 1994 | - | The Origin of Language - Ruehlen | :: | 1 |
| 1995 | - | Linguistic Reconstruction - Fox | :: | 1 |
| 2003 | - | Evolutionary game theory and linguistic typology: a case study - ager | :: | 1 |