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Researchers analysed 10,000 possible primate phylogenies and reached the stunning conclusion that kissing likely originated ...

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New research suggests that kissing probably predates humanity and evolved between 16.9 million and 21.5 million years ago, after the ancestor of the great apes split from the lesser apes, or gibbons.

Kissing is more than just “mouth-to-mouth” touching, and the study doesn’t really shed much light on why humans kiss the way they do, said Adriano Reis e Lameira, an evolutionary psychologist and ...

Our results paint early apes in an amorous light, showing that the ancestors of large apes were kissing each other as far back as 21.5 – 16.9 million years ago. Clearly, they were onto a good thing ...

Or, as her majesty Faith Hill might say, “This kiss.” And, it turns out, it’s also really old. British scientists say they’ve ...

Primatologists have been studying wild geladas in the Simien Mountains National Park for years, and unsurprisingly have ...

Our results paint early apes in an amorous light, showing that the ancestors of large apes were kissing each other as far ...

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Researchers from Oxford University and the Florida Institute of Technology wanted to examine when kissing began, given that from an evolutionary standpoint it has no obvious survival benefit, and coul ...