Bonds between same-sex individuals help apes and monkeys to manage conflict and strengthen alliances, especially in dry habitats and predator-rich landscapes.

As animals go about their lives ― eating, fighting, having babies ― they don’t always follow the script laid out for them by ...

A new study by researchers at Imperial College London and published on Monday in Nature Ecology & Evolution could help shed some light. The research homes in on same-sex behavior in nonhuman primates ...

The evolution of primates has long been a subject of scientific research across disciplines such as paleontology, evolutionary biology, and ecology. For decades, the dominant theory held that primates ...

A new study posits that same-sex sexual behavior developed to help primates in complex social groups ease tension, reduce ...

Discover how recent research challenges traditional views on evolution by revealing the crucial survival functions of same-sex behaviour in nonhuman primates.

Purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Cover -- Cortical Evolution in Primates -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures and tables ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. ­­ ­ ­­— Saliva is a bodily fluid most of us take for granted despite the significant roles it plays: aiding in digestion, maintaining strong teeth and defending against oral disease.

Conference on the Relatives of Man: Modern Studies of the Relation of the Evolution of Nonhuman Primates to Human Evolution, New York (1962) ...

A new study from Northwestern University is reshaping how scientists think about brain evolution. The research suggests that ...