A new study finds how monogamous humans are in the mammal family. In a list ranking the monogamy of mammals, humans stood at ...

Learn more about mammal monogamy rates, which support the theory that the primary mating pattern in Homo sapiens is monogamy.

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

Sexuality and gender are often at the forefront of cultural and political debate today. In his new book, The Sexual Evolution: How 500 Million Years of Sex, Gender, and Mating Shape Modern ...

The first study to analyse rates of full vs half siblings in a range of mammals provides new evidence for monogamous ...

A University of Cambridge study reveals that humans are more monogamous than most mammals, ranking between meerkats and beavers.

A study comparing monogamy loyalty among mammals found that humans rank higher than meerkats but lower than beavers. Professor Mark Dyble’s team from the University of Cambridge’s Department of ...

In sum, humans possess multiple features corresponding to a single-male mating system. Susceptibility to sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) yields further evidence. Charlie Nunn and colleagues ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I'm an American writer working in fiction and nonfiction. A species of New World monkeys seems to have found a tidy solution to ...

Humans once had a way smaller footprint. "Homo Sapiens, modern humans, evolved in Africa," says Arev Sümer, a paleogenetics PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in ...

Today's humans carry the genes of an ancient, unknown ancestor, left there by hominin species intermingling perhaps a million years ago. The ancestor may have been Homo erectus, but no one knows for ...

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 ...