India, Dec. 11 -- New research from the University of Cambridge suggests humans are highly monogamous, though still not as committed as beavers. As per the study conducted, humans rank between meerkats and beavers when it comes to their inclination for monogamy. The study looked at the prevalence of full siblings against half-siblings to ascertain how much a particular species was prone to monogamous behaviour.

"There is a premier league of monogamy, in which humans sit comfortably, while the vast majority of other mammals take a far more promiscuous approach to mating," Dr Mark Dyble of the Department of Archaeology in Cambridge, who conducted the study, said, as per phys.org.

"The finding that human rates of full siblings overlap with...