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First kiss dates back 21M years
- begueradj 11mo ago[flagged]
- bl0rg 11mo agoI'd rather kiss my dog, whom I love, over a random person that I have little in common with. Is that somehow weird to you?
- lowq 11mo agoThe internet is an amazing place.
- begueradj 11mo ago[flagged]
- pfannkuchen 11mo agoInsufficiently analytical take. Dogs are a special case. Humans are part of their soil, the soil they evolved in. They must have features (physical, behavioral) to manipulate humans into treating them like part of the group. Think of the environment dogs evolved in. Small homogenous groups of humans. They aren’t even human, and humans still treated them as part of the in group, while at the same time killing people outside of their clan who looked and acted almost exactly like they did, certainly well within the bounds of what would today be a single nation or region within a nation. Dogs and empathy towards them are totally compatible with human xenophobia or whatever we call it, there is no contradiction or hypocrisy here.
- cheque 11mo agoI assume kissing comes from a parent chewing up food and then transferring it to the baby. This is innate “caring” behavior. Similarly, mammary glands are for providing milk/nutrition. These get associated with primal needs and therefore the amygdala, and so is associated with strong emotion.
- weatherlite 11mo agoChew your meat for you, pass it back and forth In a passionate kiss from my mouth to yours I like you
- doubled112 11mo agoWhat a terrible day to have basic literacy skills and an imagination.
- jswelker 11mo agoThe song is 34 years old my friend.
- fluoridation 11mo agoIt was a terrible day 34 years ago.
- ls-a 11mo ago[flagged]
- nozzlegear 11mo agoYou think your ancestors were monkeys. I think my ancestors were something like monkeys. We are not the same.
- ls-a 11mo ago[flagged]
- nozzlegear 11mo ago> you think your ancestors are whatever researchers tell you they are Actually it was revealed to me in a dream.
- jvanderbot 11mo agoKissing is so weird. You can make up a thousand just-so stories. You can imagine it meant totally different things through time and across cultures. For me it just seems like yet another culturally-defined signal of intimacy. Like showing ankles or chests or saying this or that. Seems to me trying to make everything some hard wired evolutionary thing is a dead end.
- omnicognate 11mo agoExcept that as the article says many animals kiss, not just humans.
- dachris 11mo agoReally funny on a farm when you see young calves "kissing" i.e. stick their noses/mouths together and lick each other's noses.
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- dyauspitr 11mo agoNo, kisses tingle, even completely emotionless ones. Lips have a lot of nerve endings.
- pfannkuchen 11mo agoDo hunter gatherers kiss near-universally? I think that would answer the question of whether it is nature or nurture. I’m allowing for it to be suppressed at times by culture, but I would expect the instinctive behavior to win the majority of the time unless the instinctive behavior is somehow harmful in an environment different from the organism’s classic environment.
- tylervigen 11mo agoThe researchers found a common ancestor of many different species that all conduct non-functional kissing. The surprising thing about the research is that it specifically implies kissing is not cultural!
- _gmkt 11mo agoOK, now date the last one :)
- nozzlegear 11mo agoI just smooched my wife and reset the timer.
- ChrisMarshallNY 11mo ago> humans and Neanderthals may even have smooched one another More than just "smooching," if DNA has anything to say about it...
- andrewmcwatters 11mo ago[dead]