Learn more about mammal monogamy rates, which support the theory that the primary mating pattern in Homo sapiens is monogamy.

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 ...

Sticking with a long-term life partner to rear children has long been considered a dominant mating pattern for our species, ...

Biological anthropologists and evolutionary psychologists commonly take it for granted that human monogamy has a biological basis. Desmond Morris was an influential early advocate. His 1967 ...