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

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

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 ...

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

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

Behaviour among non-human species could help keep groups together in face of social challenges, says study ...

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 ...

Evolutionary process and the primates -- Preliminary survey of the primates in space and time -- Evidence of the dentition -- Evidence of the skull -- Evidence of the limbs -- Evidence of the brain -- ...

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