December is a very special month in many countries around the world. No, not because of Christmas. Because it’s baby-making ...

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 ...

Plants and animals have evolved all sorts of ways to make themselves more appealing to potential mates—including colorful feet, flamboyant feathers, complex mating dances and sexual deception. Many ...

Scientists have known for a while that Neanderthals occasionally mated with humans eons ago. But a study in Science adds a new layer of knowledge to the subject: It turns out that much of this mating ...

A recent study led by the University of Eastern Finland explored sexual selection in humans by investigating whether female odor-based mating preferences could predict how compatible male and female ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A male hourglass tree frog (Dendropsophus ebraccatus) with an inflated vocal sac used to produce calls. Your taste in music may ...

In my view, one of the most important theories of sex and relationships is the Sexual Strategies Theory (SST). Developed by David Buss and David Schmitt in the 90’s, SST has a simple premise: Humans ...

Learn more about mammal monogamy rates, which support the theory that the primary mating pattern in Homo sapiens is monogamy. Many of us think of our own species as a monogamous one. We select a mate, ...