Orgasms used as sexual currency, research shows
Humans have evolved to use intense sexual pleasure, especially orgasm, to control our partners, according to new research.
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News tagged with sexual behaviour
Females more promiscuous in colder climates, says insect study
Females have more sexual partners when they live in colder climates and are happier being monogamous when it is hotter, a study into the behavior of insects has found.
Plants & Animals
Oct 26, 2015
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Sexual selection in the sea
Biologists have uncovered new insights into how the male sexual behaviour of the peculiar southern bottletail squid is primed to produce the greatest number of offspring.
Plants & Animals
Jun 4, 2013
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Survival of the prettiest: Sexual selection can be inferred from the fossil record
Detecting sexual selection in the fossil record is not impossible, according to scientists writing in Trends in Ecology and Evolution this month, co-authored by Dr Darren Naish of the University of Southampton.
Evolution
Jan 29, 2013
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Scientists complete Bonobo genome
In a project led by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, an international team of scientists has completed the sequencing and analysis of the genome of the last great ape, the bonobo. Bonobos, ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 13, 2012
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Explorer's study of 'sexually depraved' penguins unearthed
He risked freezing or starving to death on a doomed expedition to the South Pole 100 years ago -- but for George Murray Levick, the real horror lay in the twisted sexual mores of the Adelie penguin.
Plants & Animals
Jun 10, 2012
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Bird's head color determines its personality
UK researchers have shown that highly sociable Australian birds, called Gouldian finches, have different personalities according to the colour of their heads.
Plants & Animals
Jun 6, 2012
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Sexy snacks: Study finds female mate searching evolves when mating gifts are important
In the animal world, males typically search for their female partners. The mystery is that in some species, you get a reversal -- the females search for males.
Plants & Animals
Sep 28, 2011
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Females choose mates for their personalities, study shows
Adventurous females choose mates with similar personalities, regardless of the male's appearance and other assets, according to research led by the University of Exeter. This is the first study to show that the non-sexual ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 25, 2011
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To flirt or not to flirt, that is the question
(PhysOrg.com) -- After studying male desert goby fish, a team of Monash researchers has suggested that male sexual behaviour is primed to produce the greatest number of offspring.
Plants & Animals
Jun 9, 2011
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