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Opposites attract: MHC-associated mate choice in a polygynous primate
J. M. Setchell, M. J. E. Charpentier, K. M. Abbott, E. J. Wickings & L. A. Knapp

• Sky - How Finding Love May Be Monkey Business
• Thaindian - It’s official: Opposites attract
• Telegraph - Opposites 'really do attract'
• Daily Mail - Mandrills and man: Why smell may be the key to how we choose a partner to ensure our offspring's survival
• SudDeutsche - Die Attraktivität des Fremden

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Loudness of birdsong is related to the body size, syntax and phonology of passerine species
G. C. Cardoso

• ABC Science (Australia)  - Beauty is in the ear of feathered listener

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Comparative anatomy and phylogenetic distribution of the mammalian cecal appendix
H. F. Smith, R. E. Fisher, M. L. Everett, A. D. Thomas, R. Randal Bollinger & W. Parker

• Scientific American - That's No Vestigial Organ, That's My Appendix (Podcast)
• United Press International - Study challenges Darwin's appendix theory
• Newsweek - The Appendix Fights Illnesses! Seven Misunderstood Body Parts Explained

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A change in competitive context reverses sexual selection on male size
M. Kasumovic & M. Andrade

• Daily Telegraph, Australia - Size doesn't matter in killer redback mating ritual
• The Australian, Australia - Size doesn't matter in redback world
• The Times of India - Little male spiders much better lovers

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Do flowers wave to attract pollinators? A case study with Silene maritima
J. Warren & P. James

• Nature Blog - Those clever flowers 
• BBC - Flowers 'wave' at passing insects

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Moving to mate: the evolution of separate and combined sexes in multicellular organisms
S. M. Eppley & l. K. Jesson

• New Scientist - Slow movers opt for a single sex

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Barn swallow chicks beg more loudly when broodmates are unrelated
G. Boncoraglio & N. Saino

• New Scientist - Begging chicks reveal family ties

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Imbalanced genomic imprinting in brain development: an evolutionary basis for the aetiology of autism
C Badcock and B Crespi

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Modulation of sexual signalling by immune challenged male mealworm beetles (Tenebrio molitor, L.): evidence for terminal investment and dishonesty
B Sadd, L Holman, H Armitage, F Lock, R Marland & MT Siva-Jothy
The research published in this article was reported on in the New Scientist: "Beetles that go out with a bang".