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 ...

Sticking with a long-term life partner to rear children has long been considered a dominant mating pattern for our species, although reproductive monogamy is not universal across our many cultures and ...

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 ...

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

Monogamy : past and present / Ulrich H. Reichard -- Evolution of monogamy : mating relationships, parental care and sexual selection / Anders Pape Møller -- Mate guarding and the evolution of social ...

“Almost all other monogamous mammals either live in tight family units of just a breeding pair and their offspring, or in groups where only one female breeds,” he explained. “Whereas humans live in ...