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

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

We used this definition to trawl published scientific papers, searching for observations of kissing in the group of monkeys ...

When my 3-year-old is in a good mood, she asks for a “true love kiss.” She first heard the phrase during a family viewing of Shrek, but it has since become her signal that she is craving affection.

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 ...

Intimate kissing (think lip-to-lip contact between two individuals in a sexual context) is typically the first partnered sexual behavior you experience. It's also the most common and the most frequent ...

I spent Christmas with my daughter and son-in-law, and their seven-year-old daughter. During that time I noticed that my grandchild and her dad hugged and kissed a lot, much more than you would expect ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Like so many others, I have a mother-in-law whom I can only tolerate for short periods of time. For context, my significant other and I live together and are basically married, ...