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 ...
Past theories have suggested that animals exhibit SSB to increase group cohesion, to signal dominance among a larger group, ...
University of California, Davis, Chancellor Gary S. May has named Professor Karen Bales as director of the California ...
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 ...
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 ...
When Frans de Waal started 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 feelings — the ...
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, ...