The increase in complexity from simple replicating molecules to complex animal societies has involved approximately eight major evolutionary transitions 6,7. Almost all of these transitions have ...

Many believe that most people dislike individuals who have sex with a lot of partners—although one's definition of “a lot” is highly subjective. In study after study, promiscuous people are seen as ...

For far too long, women have been seen as secondary to men under the patriarchal rule of human society. Yet, humanity's existence has been a minor blip in the history of the Earth, where females are ...

Molecular recognition between proteins and their interacting partners underlies the biochemistry of living organisms. Specificity in this recognition is thought to be essential, whereas promiscuity is ...

University of Oxford provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Females are coy and males are ardent. This was Darwin’s somewhat Victorian portrayal of the sexes in his book The Descent of ...