The meanings associated with kissing are always very romantic has happened. Kissing occupies a special place, especially in arts such as theatre, film and painting.

But kissing, that we attach so much significance to romance, for a completely different reason It may have appeared!

It may be a method used by our furry ancestors to clean off ticks and lice.

Kiss, One of the ways to show love and also a sign of closeness. But the pillow has its origins in something completely different than you might imagine.

Adriano Lameira, who works in the field of ‘evolutionary psychology’ at the University of Warwick, England, says the history of kissing goes back millions of years. came from our hairy ancestors claims.

Lameira says a move that is very similar but not the same as kissing is cleaning lice and ticks He claims it was something done for the purpose of intercourse and then took on a sexual connotation.

Clearing out parasites and dead skin cells is another theory.

Stretching the lips forward and sucking motion; Millions of years ago it was the main method for removing dead skin cells and parasites. According to Lameira, this movement It ended with lips meeting.

As feathers disappeared during the evolutionary process, cleaning tasks such as parasites, lice and ticks also began to disappear, but the lip-to-mouth part did not disappear and it became an action to strengthen social and family bonds. This whole process of just continuing to kiss In a period of 3-5 million years It is estimated that he was sitting.

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