The first ever recorded kiss happened 4,500 years ago, scientists have suggested, after discovering evidence which puts the ...

Kissing feels instinctive and intimate, yet scientists now argue it is a surprisingly recent and uneven addition to human ...

Scientists trace the origins of human kissing back over 20 million years to ancient apes who first showed gentle ...

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 stretches back roughly 21 million years, to the shared ancestor of humans and other large apes, according to the ...

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