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August 2015

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

Wild bonobos

August 4, 2015

Flexible vocalizations in wild bonobos show similarities to development of human speech

Researchers have found that wild bonobos are able to vocalize in a similar manner to infant humans. Their findings challenge how we think about the evolution of communication and potentially move the dividing line between humans and other apes.

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August 25, 2015

The relationship of female physical attractiveness to body fatness

Guanlin Wang, Kurosh Djafarian, Chima A. Egedigwe, Asmaa El Hamdouchi, Robert Ojiambo, Harris Ramuth, Sandra Johanna Wallner-Liebmann, Sonja Lackner, Adama Diouf, Justina Sauciuvenaite, Catherine Hambly, Lobke M. Vaanholt, Mark D. Faries, John R. Speakman

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1155 PubMed 26336638

August 6, 2015

Modeling absolute differences in life expectancy with a censored skew-normal regression approach

André Moser, Kerri Clough-Gorr, Marcel Zwahlen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1162 PubMed 26339544

August 13, 2015

A survey of HK, HPt, and RR domains and their organization in two-component systems and phosphorelay proteins of organisms with fully sequenced genomes

Baldiri Salvado, Ester Vilaprinyo, Albert Sorribas, Rui Alves

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1183 PubMed 26339559

August 4, 2015

Vision in two cyprinid fish: implications for collective behavior

Diana Pita, Bret A. Moore, Luke P. Tyrrell, Esteban Fernández-Juricic