Author
Chris Knight 1991. Blood Relations. Menstruation and the origins of culture. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
Chris Knight 2017. Decoding Chomsky: Science and Revolutionary Politics. Paperback edition. London & New Haven: Yale University Press.
Editor
Chris Knight, R. Dunbar and C. Power, 1999. An evolutionary approach to human culture. In R. Dunbar, C. Knight and C. Power (eds), The Evolution of Culture. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 1-11.
Chris Knight and J. Lewis 2014. Vocal deception, laughter, and the linguistic significance of reverse dominance. In D. Dor, C. Knight and J. Lewis (eds), The Social Origins of Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 297-314.
Chris Knight, 2009. Language, ochre and the rule of law. In R. Botha and C. Knight (eds), The Cradle of Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 281-303.
Chris Knight 2000. Introduction: The evolution of cooperative communication. In C. Knight, M. Studdert-Kennedy and J. R. Hurford (eds), The Evolutionary Emergence of Language. Social function and the origins of linguistic form. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 19-26.
Chris Knight 1998. Introduction: grounding language function in social cognition. In J. R. Hurford, M. Studdert-Kennedy and C. Knight (eds), Approaches to the Evolution of Language: Social and cognitive bases. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 9-16. Chris Knight 1998. Ritual/speech coevolution: a solution to the problem of deception. In J. R. Hurford, M. Studdert-Kennedy and C. Knight (eds), Approaches to the Evolution of Language: Social and cognitive bases. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 68-91.
Contributor
Chris Knight 2009. Language, lies and lipstick: a speculative reconstruction of the Middle Stone Age ‘human revolution'. In: P. Kappeler and J. Silk (eds), Mind the Gap: Tracing the origins of human universals. Chicago: Chicago University Press, pp. 299-313.
Chris Knight 2007. Revisiting matrilineal priority. In J. Lassègue (ed), Émergence et évolution de la parenté. Paris: Éditions Rue d’Ulm/Presses de l’École normale supérieure, pp. 25-43.
Chris Knight 2006. Language co-evolved with the rule of law. In A. Cangelosi, A. D. M. Smith and K. Smith (eds) The evolution of language. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference (EVOLANG6). New Jersey & London: World Scientific Publishing, pp. 168-75.
Chris Knight 2004. Decoding Chomsky. European Review 12(4): 581-603.
Chris Knight, 2003. Noam Chomsky: Politics or science? What Next? Marxist discussion journal 26: 17-29.
Chris Knight 1997. The wives of the sun and moon. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 3(N.S.): 133-153.
Chris Knight 1988. Menstrual synchrony and the Australian rainbow snake. In T. Buckley and A. Gottlieb (eds), Blood Magic. The anthropology of menstruation. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, pp. 232-55.
Chris Knight 1996. ‘Menstruation’. In A. Barnard & J. Spencer (eds), Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology. London & New York: Routledge, pp. 363-4. Chris Knight 1996. ‘Taboo’. In A. Barnard & J. Spencer (eds), Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology. London & New York: Routledge, pp. 542-4.
Chris Knight 2008. ‘Honest fakes’ and language origins. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 15, No. 10–11, 2008, pp. 236–48.
Chris Knight 2010. The origins of symbolic culture. In Ulrich J. Frey, Charlotte Störmer and Kai P. Willfuhr (eds) 2010. Homo Novus – A Human Without Illusions. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, pp. 193-211.
Chris Knight 2002. Language and revolutionary consciousness. In Alison Wray (ed.), The Transition to Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 138-160.
Chris Knight 1996. Darwinism and collective representations. In J. Steele and S. Shennan (eds), The Archaeology of Human Ancestry. Power, sex and tradition. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 331-346.
Chris Knight, C. Power and I. Watts 1995. The human symbolic revolution: A Darwinian account. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 5(1): 75-114.
Chris Knight, 2016. Puzzles and mysteries in the origins of language. Language & Communication 50, 12–21.
Chris Knight, 1983. Lévi-Strauss and the dragon: Mythologiques reconsidered in the light of an Australian Aboriginal myth. Man (N.S) Vol. 18 No. 1: 21-50.
Chris Knight, 1985. Menstruation as medicine. Social Science and Medicine 21: 671-683. PMID: 4059950 DOI: 10.1016/0277-9536(85)90207-2
Power, Camilla, Ian Watts and Chris Knight. 2021. The Symbolic Revolution: a sexual conflict model. In N Gontier, C Sinha, A Lock (eds) Oxford Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution Oxford UP, 2nd edition. Online Publication Date: Mar 2021 DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198813781.013.13
Chris Knight and Jerome Lewis 2017. Wild voices: mimicry, reversal, metaphor, and the emergence of language. Current Anthropology 58: 435–453.
Chris Knight and C. Power (2012). Social conditions for the evolutionary emergence of language. In M. Tallerman and K. Gibson (eds), Handbook of Language Evolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 346-49.
Chris Knight 2008. Early human kinship was matrilineal. In N. J. Allen, H. Callan, R. Dunbar and W. James (eds.), Early Human Kinship. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 61-82.