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

Humans aren’t the only creatures engaging in same-sex sexual activities. To date, scientists have documented around 1,500 ...

While we humans tend to focus on ourselves, the goal of this course is to examine the natural history and behavior of your closest relatives, the nonhuman primates. Through lectures, streaming videos ...

A recent article in the New York Times caught my eye concerning the strong role of genes in determining the social behavior of nonhuman primates. A team of researchers at the University of Oxford ...

A recent article in the New York Times caught my eye concerning the strong role of genes in determining the social behavior of nonhuman primates. A team of researchers at the University of Oxford ...

When Frans de Waal first started out, studying nonhuman primates in the Netherlands more than 40 years ago, he was told not to consider the emotions of the animals he was observing. "Thoughts and ...

Primatologist Frans de Waal believes that the way humans experience emotion is not unique: "That's a spectrum of behavior that we have, and the... Sex, Empathy, Jealousy: How Emotions And Behavior Of ...

Anyone who peruses relationship settings on social media knows that our interactions with other humans can be intricate, but a new study in Nature: Scientific Reports suggests that researchers may be ...

Nonhuman primates are our closest living relatives, and no other group of mammals can remind us of ourselves the way nonhuman primates do. We will start this course by examining the phylogeny, ...