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 ...

Photograph of three male zebra finches (Taeniopygia castanotis). In this study, more than 4,000 human participants from around the world were presented with pairs of animal sounds from 16 different ...

NEW YORK (AP) — New research reveals that ancient humans and Neanderthals engaged in interbreeding when they cohabited in the same regions tens of thousands of years ago. This genetic analysis sheds ...

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia. Genomic research by members of Sarah Tishkoff's lab at the University of ...

From the eerie croak of a tropical frog to the haunting call of the howler monkey, the animal kingdom is filled with some wild and wacky mating calls. But which do you find the most appealing?