Our understanding of female–male power relationships in animals has changed over time. Evolutionary biologists once thought that male mammals held clear-cut power over females. Later, species with ...

Male dominance has long been assumed to be nearly universal in primates, with female power viewed as a rare exception to the rule. However, according to researchers at The University of Texas at ...

Shaped by Victorian-era presuppositions about coy femininity, as well as a lack of female representation in the field, the role of females in primate evolution was long overlooked. This began to ...

Male aggression and sexual coercion of females in primates / Martin N. Muller, Sonya M. Kahlenberg, and Richard W. Wrangham -- Evolution of sexual coercion with respect to sexual selection and sexual ...

No alpha males here: A male black lemur pictured in the foreground, with a female behind him - Copyright AFP ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS No alpha males here: A male ...

Observations of “alpha male” behavior among apes — including some of humans’ closest relatives in the animal kingdom — have helped shape the archetype of the dominant male into a controversial ...

Scientists from University of California, Los Angeles, Harvard University, and elsewhere have developed what they claim is the first comprehensive road map of how the ovarian reserve forms in primates ...

Dozens of young, female primates have escaped from a research facility in South Carolina. Police say nearby residents shouldn’t monkey around: the primates are skittish and human interaction could ...

Female chimps living in an East African forest experience menopause and then survive years, even decades, after becoming biologically unable to reproduce. The apes are the first known examples of wild ...

I recently had the honor of speaking with Frans de Waal, one of the world’s foremost experts in primatology, on The Nature & Nurture Podcast. We spoke about his new book Different: Gender Through the ...