New Study Probes How Same-Sex Behaviors Evolved in Nonhuman Primates
Scientific American Ideas • 1/12/2026 – 1/14/2026
Summary
A new study investigates the evolution of same-sex behaviors in nonhuman primates. The research connects these behaviors to the development of complex social structures.
Advertisement
Breaking Similar stories
Constable’s Year: An Artist in Changing Seasons
3 Quarks Daily • 2 days ago
The New Age of Resource Competition Needs Transparency
Project Syndicate • 2 days ago
Mamdani Taps an Equity Advocate as Chief Planner
City Journal • 2 days ago
Conservative Postmodernism and the Stuck Culture Hypothesis
3 Quarks Daily • 2 days ago
British Lessons About American Decline
Project Syndicate • 1 day ago
Trump’s Enormous Gamble on Regime Change in Iran
The Atlantic Ideas • Today
The Birth of Light
Nautilus • 2 days ago
Saving The Life We Cannot See
Noema Magazine • 2 days ago
The Tariffs Loss Is Paradoxically a Win for Trump
The Atlantic Ideas • 2 days ago
Where Have All the Pithiatics Gone?
3 Quarks Daily • 1 day ago
Survived Similar stories
Anti-Lindy Similar stories
Same-sex sexual behaviour can help primates to survive — and reproduce
Nature News • 1+ months
Daily briefing: Same-sex sex is a normal part of some primates’ lives
Nature News • 1+ months
Study: Platforms that rank the latest LLMs can be unreliable
MIT News • 2 weeks ago
A New Study Challenges the Mental-Health Claims of “Gender-Affirming Care”
City Journal • 2 weeks ago
Alzheimer’s blood tests predict the average age at which the disease may strike, study finds
Scientific American • 1 week ago
Study reveals climatic fingerprints of wildfires and volcanic eruptions
MIT News • 5 days ago
Urban dandelions have evolved to stay close to home. That’s bad news
Science Magazine • 1+ months
NIH official resigns after flap over risks of seasonal flu virus study
Science Magazine • 2+ months
Fragile X study uncovers brain wave biomarker bridging humans and mice
MIT News • 1 week ago
The Seamstress Who Solved the Ancient Mystery of the Argonaut, Pioneered the Aquarium, and Laid the Groundwork for the Study of Octopus Intelligence
The Marginalian • 5 days ago