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 ...

We aren’t the only species on this planet that have domesticated another species. There is one kind of ancient ant that herds and cares for insect aphids in order to milk them of honeydew sugar. But ...

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

I think of it as a scale of 0-100% ape… perhaps some moments require 50/50 ape/human, other times only 10% ape. We’re interested in blurring the lines about what makes us human vs. animalia.

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

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 ...