Bonobo evolution reveals bonding and group cohesion in response to threats, favoring paths to finding peace instead of ...

Humans are the only primates that run nearly naked under the sun. Here’s how this biological tradeoff reshaped how our ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Primates have larger brains than most other mammals of their size. This gives them advanced ...

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

Great apes share human-like social circles, but chimpanzees and bonobos differ in how selectively they maintain close social ...

Bonobo chimpanzees are unique among primates because they do not kill other bonobos. … They still showed increased alertness ...

The researchers found that same-sex behavior was more common in primate groups with clear hierarchical structures and those ...

Researchers uncover evidence that the gut microbiome and brain connection can influence brain gene expression and neural ...

A growing body of research suggests same-sex behavior in nonhuman primates is important to social connections.

The white-handed gibbon comes closest to humans in the study, with a monogamy rate of 63.5%. It’s the only other top-ranked ...

On dry nights, the San hunter-gatherers of Namibia often sleep under the stars. They have no electric lights or new Netflix releases keeping them awake. Yet when they rise in the morning, they haven’t ...

Biologists tend to look at the animal kingdom and try to categorize things in an organized fashion. But nature has a way of ...