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How Did Humans End Up Smooching on the Lips? It May Have Started Out With a 21-Million-Year-Old Kiss

Our ancient primate relatives—including Neanderthals—may have enjoyed a nice peck on the lips. But researchers still don’t ...

21-million-year-old smooch: The very first kiss occurred before humans, study says

A new study released on Wednesday found that humanity's first kiss occurred roughly 21 million years ago, predating humans.

First kiss was 20 million years ago by early primates, scientists say

Kissing did not begin with star-crossed human lovers but with the primate ancestors of great apes around 20 million years ago ...

Kissing is an ‘evolutionary conundrum.’ Scientists just mapped its unexpected origins

Kissing is more than just "mouth-to-mouth" touching, and the study doesn't really shed much light on why humans kiss the way ...

Women warn about the “forehead kiss of doom and despair”—the kiss you get right before he disappears

Dating TikTok has a new omen to obsess over: the so-called “forehead kiss of doom and despair.” Women across the platform ...
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Which animals were the first to lock lips and kiss? Scientists astounded by evidence of kissing long before humans

They found the act of kissing can be traced all the way back to the last common ancestor of humans and other great apes, ...