The side-splotched lizard (*Uta stansburiana*) is a common reptile found in California, United States. During spring, the ...

The white-handed gibbon comes closest to humans in the study, with a monogamy rate of 63.5%. It’s the only other top-ranked “monotocous” species, meaning it usually has one offspring per pregnancy, ...

This separation of sexes in plants is called dioecy. One reason why dioecy may evolve is because of the negative effects that ...

Some animals reproduce only once before dying. This life strategy, called semelparity, sees organisms channel all energy into ...

Understanding the evolution of insect mating behavior is essential for explaining how early insects adapted to life on land.

Penguins hand over pebbles; scorpionflies give spitballs. But I’m hankering after a sea sponge presented by a dolphin, says science writer Helen Pilcher ...

Understanding the evolution of insect mating behavior is essential for explaining how early insects adapted to life on land.

Evolution is slow, but with the right experimental set-up—and enough time to spare—you can watch nature do its methodical ...

Sigmund Freud has his critics. He always has. Chief among them are the religious, who find his works antagonistic; feminists, who accuse him of being dated and sexist; and contemporary psychologists, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The aim of this paper is to present a verbal theoretical model that could account for the among pair variability in courtship and copulation ...

Sexual conflict has been shown to shape many behaviors in the reproductive context, such as the duration of copulation, across a broad taxonomic range. In spiders, copulation duration is one of the ...

In today’s workplace, success is no longer about individual performance. It’s about building teams that work cohesively, communicate effectively and share a sense of purpose. But how do you create a ...