Humans have a monogamy rating of 66% full siblings, ahead of meerkats (60%) but behind beavers (73%). Meanwhile, our ...

Humans are far closer to meerkats and beavers for levels of exclusive mating than we are to most of our primate cousins, according to a new University of Cambridge study that includes a table ranking ...

Sticking with a long-term life partner to rear children has long been considered a dominant mating pattern for our species, ...

A new study uses sibling genetics to compare monogamy across species. Humans score higher than expected and sit close to ...

Human pair bonding is more comparable to exclusive mating seen in meerkats and beavers than in our primate cousins ...

Humans are far more monogamous than our primate cousins, but less so than beavers, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England analyzed the proportion of full ...

Animal domestication did not begin as an invention but as a gradual shift in behavior, trust, and control between species.