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.

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 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 ...

The Kalahari Meerkat Project is the longest running project operating under the Kalahari Research Centre. The research team is focused on understanding the evolution of cooperative behavior within the ...