A new study that examines how kissing evolved suggests that ape ancestors and early humans like Neanderthals probably locked ...

A kiss is one of the most universal gestures in the world. It’s a wordless way to show affection that transcends language, ...

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

It is not a recent cultural development. A new study in Evolution and Human Behavior suggests kissing may date back 21 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Evolutionary biologists have been investigating the evolutionarily origins of kissing by taking a broad look at behaviour in ...

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