Mating with different partners could become a way to lower that pressure. Just like the red deer, you could be polygynous, meaning you could mate with multiple partners to increase the chances of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photograph of a pair of túngara frogs (Engystomops pustulosus) in amplexus (male grasping onto female). It’s important to remember ...

Around 2% of modern humans carry Neanderthal DNA, meaning we know early humans got super intimate with our now-extinct relatives. According to new research, when Neanderthals and humans did hit it off ...

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 ...

Pluralistic evolutionary theories of human mating argue that Darwinian sexual selection favored strategies that offered flexibility in response to a wide range of contexts (Gangestad & Simpson, 2000; ...

Weizmann Institute researchers find that yeast born to preferred partners are fitter than those from one-night stands, ...