Smithsonian Magazine on MSN
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 ...
Rather than being a recent cultural development, kissing may have been practised by other early humans like Neanderthals and ...
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 ...
Study Finds on MSN
Ancient DNA Suggests Neanderthals Engaged In Kissing — And Probably Smooched Humans Too!
In A Nutshell Statistical modeling based on living primates suggests an 84% probability that Neanderthals engaged in kissing behavior, challenging outdated stereotypes. Modern humans and Neanderthals ...
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