Weizmann Institute researchers find that yeast born to preferred partners are fitter than those from one-night stands, ...

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 ...

A new study has revealed new insights into the mating patterns and preferences of early humans. The study, published in the journal Science on Feb. 26, found that when Neanderthals and early humans ...

Researchers say the remains are “a mosaic of primitive and derived traits never seen before.” Dental remains dating back 300,000 years, which were discovered at a well-known Chinese archaeological ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photograph of a pair of túngara frogs (Engystomops pustulosus) in amplexus (male grasping onto female). It’s important to remember ...

A new study suggests humans belong in an elite “league of monogamy,” ranking closer to beavers and meerkats than to chimpanzees. By comparing full and half siblings across species and human cultures, ...

Biological anthropologists and evolutionary psychologists commonly take it for granted that human monogamy has a biological basis. Desmond Morris was an influential early advocate. His 1967 ...

The findings may reveal new insights into early human mating preferences A new study suggests Neanderthal males mated with human females more often than the reverse pairing Researchers propose ...