Humans may be far more monogamous by nature than previously thought, researchers say. Monogamy, or the practice of mating with only one partner at a time, is widely theorised to be a cornerstone of ...

Many of us think of our own species as a monogamous one. We select a mate, and we stick with them, or so we tend to believe. But are modern humans really as monogamous as we assume, and are we any ...

Humans are pretty monogamous, all things considered. That’s not a judgment call – it’s the conclusion of a new study from a researcher at the University of Cambridge’s Department of Archaeology, which ...

Humans are far more monogamous than our primate cousins, but less so than beavers, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England analyzed the proportion of full ...

How monogamous are humans, really? It’s an age-old question subject to significant debate. Now a University of Cambridge professor has an answer: Somewhere between the Eurasian beaver and a meerkat.

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 ...

Humans are playing in the premier league of monogamous mammals, according to a new ranking of animals by their reproductive habits, but we may need a new manager to beat the beavers. In the study from ...

To compile the ranking, British evolutionary anthropologist Mark Dyble used archaeological and ethnographic data from more than 100 human populations LONDON, December 10. /TASS/. Humans rank seventh ...

Monogamy : past and present / Ulrich H. Reichard -- Evolution of monogamy : mating relationships, parental care and sexual selection / Anders Pape Møller -- Mate guarding and the evolution of social ...

Is monogamy only an oppressive social institution that puts unnatural constraints on our desires for sexual variety and novelty as well as deep romantic connection with multiple partners? Certainly, ...