Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Our understanding of female-male power relationships in animals has changed over time. Evolutionary biologists once thought that ...

Just because a female olive baboon has mated with a specific male doesn't mean he will be the father of her offspring.

New research on Monday contradicted the commonly held idea that males dominate females among primates, revealing far more nuanced power dynamics in the relationships of our close relatives. "For a ...

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 ...

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 ...