We all experience stress and conflict — whether it’s an argument with a friend, workplace tension, or competition for ...

“Bonobos and chimpanzees both live in very complex social structures with very rich social interactions that they have to ...

We don't just have sex to reproduce—new research suggests that using sex to manage social tension could be a trait that ...

The research team challenged these assumptions by directly comparing the sexual behavior between bonobos and chimpanzees for ...

A new look into the private lives of chimpanzees has found that the primates settle disagreements with close friends by ...

New research suggests that using sex to ease social tension may have roots going back more than six million years.

Using sex to manage social tension dates back over six million years to humans' common ape ancestor, according to a new study. Comparing sister ...

A rare and deliberate signal between a mother chimpanzee and her daughter raises new questions about ape communication, ...

The team found that both bonobos and chimpanzees used sex in similar ways to ease tension and reaffirm social bonds before feeding. Bonobos also often had sex more after fights to repair social ...

An experiment shows that bonobos can understand when a human lacks knowledge and point them in the right direction ...

A recent study suggests that bonobos (a type of endangered chimpanzee) may have a rudimentary form of what psychologists call the theory of mind—the ability to infer what others know ...