"One result of nine-month 'Primate project' held at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California, during 1962-1963. Organized by Sherwood L. Washburn and David A.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A global study shows primates play, groom, and care for other species, offering new insight into the origins of human-animal bonds ...

While homophobes have long claimed that homosexuality “isn’t natural,” a newly published study found over 59 different primate species that exhibit same-sex sexual behaviors (SSB). This finding ...

A new study, published today by the scientific journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, provides an interesting overview of the relative frequency in which same-sex behaviors have been observed in an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Japanese macaques at Joshin-etsu National Park in Japan. (Peter Adams / Getty Images file) Humans are far from the only primates ...

New findings by researchers at the University of Montpellier, the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, and the German Primate Center in Göttingen resolve why male-female ...

A major new study has examined the prevalence of same-sex behavior in primates. It appeared Monday in Nature Ecology and Evolution. It’s been described as the most comprehensive review to date on the ...

Researchers at the University of Oxford, Oxford, England, traced the evolutionary origins of kissing and described their work on Evolution and Human Behavior as the first attempt to reconstruct its ...

・An international study led by the University of Oxford documented 427 friendly cross-species interactions involving 88 primate species and 127 partner species, including dogs, pigs, birds, squirrels, ...

A monkey gently grooming a dog, a young ape playing with another species, or a primate carrying an infant that is not its own. These moments can feel strangely familiar, echoing the way humans bond ...