Cold sores are caused by the herpes simplex virus (HSV) which is often transmitted from person to person during kissing.

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

"A comparative approach to the evolution of kissing," was published by Evolution and Human Behavior on Nov. 19 ...

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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 ...

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The result was striking. Kissing almost certainly existed in the ancestor of today’s large apes, which lived somewhere ...

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