Mating with different partners could become a way to lower that pressure. Just like the red deer, you could be polygynous, meaning you could mate with multiple partners to increase the chances of ...

Monogamy : past and present / Ulrich H. Reichard -- Evolution of monogamy : mating relationships, parental care and sexual selection / Anders Pape Møller -- Mate guarding and the evolution of social ...

Humans are far closer to meerkats and beavers for levels of exclusive mating than we are to most of our primate cousins, according to a new University of Cambridge study that includes a table ranking ...

Inspired by tests that asked women to choose mates solely by smelling their sweaty T-shirts, scientists from the Weizmann Institute are using yeast to probe how we and other living creatures choose ...

Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes are known to mediate sexual selection both at the individual and gamete level. Previous studies have shown that perceived body odour attractiveness is ...