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Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title
 * Animal Language - Primate: studied examples
 * Article Evaluation
 * The article focuses extensively on a particular example of baboons, particularly focusing on the ability to read. Another example highlighting macaques and vocal tracts is also briefly mentioned.
 * Sources
 * Slocombe, Katie E, Waller, Bridget M, & Liebal, Katja. (2011). The language void: The need for multimodality in primate communication research. Animal Behaviour, 81(5), 919-924.
 * Fischer, J. (2016). Primate vocal production and the riddle of language evolution. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 24(1), 72-78.

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Signalling Theory
 * Article Evaluation
 * I like how the article begins with explaining signalling theory as observed in the animal world first, and then goes on to compare it humans. I also like the breakdown between honest and dishonest signals.
 * Sources
 * Higham, James P, Heistermann, Michael, Saggau, Carina, Agil, Muhammad, Perwitasari-Farajallah, Dyah, & Engelhardt, Antje. (2012). Sexual signalling in female crested macaques and the evolution of primate fertility signals. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 12(1), 89.
 * Taglialatela, Jared P, Russell, Jamie L, Schaeffer, Jennifer A, & Hopkins, William D. (2011). Chimpanzee vocal signaling points to a multimodal origin of human language. PloS One, 6(4), E18852.

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Pointing
 * Article Evaluation
 * Non-human animals is a section reserved for the end, which makes sense given that pointing is generally considered to be a human phenomenon. Approximately two paragraphs are dedicated toward discussing it with primates, particularly with monkeys, though with little mention of specific experiment details.
 * Sources
 * Meunier, Hélène, Fagard, Jacqueline, Maugard, Anaïs, Briseño, Margarita, Fizet, Jonas, Canteloup, Charlotte, . . . Vauclair, Jacques. (2013). Patterns of hemispheric specialization for a communicative gesture in different primate species. Developmental Psychobiology, 55(6), 662-671.
 * Waal, F. B. (2001). Pointing primates: Sharing knowledge...without language. The Chronicle of Higher Education, 47(19), B7.

Option 4

 * Article title
 * Self-domestication
 * Article Evaluation
 * The "in animals" section is first, but the primates section is short, even shorter than for cats and dogs. The description is only a sentence long, and only briefly recaps Brian Hare's work. Article would do well with added information here.
 * Sources
 * Hare, Brian, & Woods, Vanessa. (2017). Cognitive comparisons of genus Pan support bonobo self-domestication. In Bonobos (pp. Bonobos, 2017-10-12). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
 * Hare, Brian, Wobber, Victoria, & Wrangham, Richard. (2012). The self-domestication hypothesis: Evolution of bonobo psychology is due to selection against aggression. Animal Behaviour, 83(3), 573-585.
 * Bonobo sociality revisited: Preliminary consideration of the self-domestication hypothesis. (2013). Homo, 64(2), 153-154.

Option 5

 * Article title
 * Animal Communication
 * Article Evaluation
 * This is a very extensive article covering this ecological phenomenon well in many taxa. It could benefit from more precise primate examples.
 * Sources
 * Vilain, A., Schwartz, J., Abry, C., & Vauclair, J. (2011). Primate communication and human language : Vocalisation, gestures, imitation and deixis in humans and non-humans (Advances in interaction studies ; 1). Amsterdam ; Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Company.
 * Madsen, E. A. (2011). Attention following and nonverbal referential communication in bonobos (Pan paniscus), chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus).