Evolutionary biologists have been investigating the evolutionarily origins of kissing by taking a broad look at behaviour in Afro-Eurasian primates, a family tree that includes chimps, bonobos, and us ...

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 ...

If I asked you to imagine your dream snog, chances are it wouldn't be with a Neanderthal; burly and hirsute as they may be. However, my team's new ...

Researchers wanted to examine when kissing began, given that from an evolutionary standpoint it has no obvious survival benefit, and could spread disease ...

Kissing is an ancient trait retained over the course of evolution amongst the large apes, reveal scientists at the University ...

Rather than being a recent cultural development, kissing may have been practised by other early humans like Neanderthals and ...

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