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When did Humans start Kissing?

Yesterday I posted The Table of Contents for The Science of Kissing and today I’ll answer another question from readers… therewillbewords asked: When did humans start kissing as a show of affection? The earliest literary evidence we have for kissing dates back to India’s Vedic Sanskrit texts composed around 3,500 years ago. However, given there […]

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gal-486682Yesterday I posted The Table of Contents for The Science of Kissing and today I'll answer another question from readers... therewillbewords asked:__ When did humans start kissing as a show of affection?__

The earliest literary evidence we have for kissing dates back to India's Vedic Sanskrit texts composed around 3,500 years ago. However, given there are so many kissing-like behaviors across the animal kingdom (particularly among our closest primate relatives) it's likely that our own species has been locking lips--on and off--for a much longer period of time.

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