A new study suggests humans belong in an elite “league of monogamy,” ranking closer to beavers and meerkats than to ...

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 ...

Many of us think of our own species as a monogamous one. We select a mate, and we stick with them, or so we tend to believe. But are modern humans really as monogamous as we assume, and are we any ...

A new study finds how monogamous humans are in the mammal family. In a list ranking the monogamy of mammals, humans stood at seventh, according to a study published in the journal Proceedings of the ...

Ancient DNA is peeling back layers of the mystery surrounding modern humans’ trysts with Neanderthals tens of thousands of years ago. Anthropologists have long known that the groups interbred before ...

This post is in response to Monogamy Anchored in Our Genes? By Robert D. Martin Ph.D. As this blog enters its sixth year, choosing the next topic is sometimes difficult. Only rarely does a suitable ...