Kit Opie News Today

This monkey is under great threat -- but it's not too late to help it.

No, not that one, the other one – yes, commitment. Our resident sex columnist tells you why monogamy is not all it’s cracked up to be… Admittedly, I’m a hard-core commitment-phobe. I don’t have a husband,

Masturbation in male primates seems to have evolved to boost reproductive success and cut the chance of getting a sexually transmitted infection, but the picture isn’t so clear for females

For the first time ever, scientists have uncovered evidence that a species long-term adaptation to living in an extremely cold climate has led to the evolution of social behaviours including extended care by mothers, increased infant survival and the ability to live in large complex multilevel societies.

"This finding offers new insights into the mechanisms that underpin behavioural evolution in primates and could be used to address social evolutionary changes across a wide range of species including humans," said Kit Opie, one of the study's authors from the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Bristol.