This Valentine’s Day, the lovelorn would do well to consult psychology Prof. Barbara Smuts, who literally wrote the book on love – baboon love, that is. Surprisingly, however, the many field studies ...
Abusive relationships may seem uniquely human, but we might share this toxic trait with our primate relatives. It turns out that baboons exhibit behavior that looks startlingly similar to intimate ...
Editor’s Note (9/25/19): On September 25 evolutionary anthropologist Jenny Tung of Duke University was named a 2019 MacArthur Fellow. Tung’s research on the consequences of early life adversity in ...