Sticking with a long-term life partner to rear children has long been considered a dominant mating pattern for our species, ...

HUMANS are less likely to cheat than chimps – but are more prone to promiscuity than beavers. They’re the findings of a major ...

Human pair bonding is more comparable to exclusive mating seen in meerkats and beavers than in our primate cousins ...

Humans have a monogamy rating of 66% full siblings, ahead of meerkats (60%) but behind beavers (73%). Meanwhile, our ...

If you ask some people, they’ll tell you humans are wired to be monogamous — it’s in our very blood. But one look at the ...

A recent study on chimpanzees in Taï National Park in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa, revealed that chimpanzees are losing traditions of male mating gestures. This coincides with declining chimpanzee ...

A new study uses sibling genetics to compare monogamy across species. Humans score higher than expected and sit close to ...

Humans are far closer to meerkats and beavers for levels of exclusive mating than we are to most of our primate cousins, ...

Humans are far more monogamous than our primate cousins, but less so than beavers, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England analyzed the proportion of full ...

Tonia Haddix (right) bonded with all of her chimps, but in particular Tonka (left) When a five-year-old Tonia Haddix went to her local fair in Ozark, Missouri, and saw an organ grinder accompanied by ...

Humans don’t just recognize each other’s voices—our brains also light up for the calls of chimpanzees, hinting at ancient communication roots shared with our closest primate relatives. Researchers ...