A new study sheds light on the role of sexual behavior in apes, which has implications for understanding its evolutionary ...

Our team’s research modelled the anatomy of these early humans, Australopithecus afarensis, to find out how well they could ...

Great apes, like humans, remember objects better when introduced by a social agent, but develop this skill only in adulthood Primates, including both monkeys and great apes, live in complex social ...

We don't just have sex to reproduce—new research suggests that using sex to manage social tension could be a trait that ...

New research suggests that using sex to ease social tension may have roots going back more than six million years.

In humans, sexual behavior has a bigger purpose ... A new study has extended sexuality's social role to our closest animal species—apes. An international team of scientists has found that ...