Charlie Nunn and colleagues predicted that primates with promiscuous mating habits would be more exposed to STDs and would hence show adaptations to combat higher infection risks. Sure enough, ...

Among primates, certain species are quite promiscuous. Female Barbary macaques, for example, mate with as many as 10 males each day during estrus--risky behavior as far as sexually transmitted ...

ATHENS, Ohio (May 24, 2007) -- You might call it a tale of "monkey see, monkey do." Researchers at Ohio University have found that after primates evolved the ability to see red, they began to develop ...

Biological anthropologists and evolutionary psychologists commonly take it for granted that human monogamy has a biological basis. Desmond Morris was an influential early advocate. His 1967 ...