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

Homosexual behaviour in primates has a deep evolutionary basis and is more likely to occur in species that live in harsh ...

Chimpanzees and bonobos are among the closest living relatives of humans. They share more than 98% of our DNA, highlighting ...

Prologue -- The structure of this book -- Six paradigms -- 1. Introduction -- Some premises -- Some history -- Evolution and modification of behavior -- Evolution of ontogeny in the human animal -- ...

Lei Cao, Ph.D., joined the University of Nevada, Reno in July 2016 after receiving her Ph.D. from the School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette. In 2010, she obtained her B ...

Introduction -- The "hardware" of web-building spiders: morphology, silk, and behavior -- Functions of orb web designs -- Putting pieces together: tradeoffs and remaining puzzles -- The building ...

Biologists tend to look at the animal kingdom and try to categorize things in an organized fashion. But nature has a way of ...

A colleague of mine who also studies evolution and behavior once told me that when a passenger next to him on a plane asks, "So, what do you do?" his reply is "Oh, me? I'm an organic chemist." End of ...