Where did kissing come from? | BBC News

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Where did kissing come from? | BBC News

Humans do it, monkeys do it, even polar bears do it.

And now researchers have reconstructed the evolutionary origins of kissing.

Their study suggests that the mouth-on-mouth kiss evolved more than 21 million years ago, and was something that the common ancestor of humans and other great apes probably did.

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Date: November 19, 2025