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

In five cases where vertebrates evolved monogamy, the same changes in gene expression occurred each time. In many non-monogamous species, females provide all or most of the offspring care. In ...

When it comes to staying faithful, I often hear debates about whether humans are naturally monogamous. A new study from the University of Cambridge has finally offered some clarity by ranking us ...

Source: Sofya Dolotovskaya, used with permission. Many birds and mammals are socially monogamous—males and females pair up, live together, and often raise their young together. However, once methods ...

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 ...

This column set out to explore the animal kingdom – to showcase its diversity of shapes, behaviors, evolutionary histories and cognitive abilities. Week after week, we examined many species, from the ...