Same-sex behavior is widespread in primates and may help strengthen social bonds and improve survival under challenging ...
A new study posits that same-sex sexual behavior developed to help primates in complex social groups ease tension, reduce ...
Bonobo evolution reveals bonding and group cohesion in response to threats, favoring paths to finding peace instead of ...
Biologists tend to look at the animal kingdom and try to categorize things in an organized fashion. But nature has a way of ...
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A new study suggests humans belong in an elite “league of monogamy,” ranking closer to beavers and meerkats than to ...
WASHINGTON, June 1 (Reuters) - The most comprehensive genomic study ever on primates - a group whose membership includes lemurs, monkeys, apes and people - has revealed pivotal genetic traits that are ...
A new investigation led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine’s Human Genome Sequencing Center, the Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain, and ...
Human brains do something peculiar when a chimpanzee screams or hoots. Instead of treating those sounds as generic animal ...