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I 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.
I 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.
Chew your meat for you, pass it back and forth In a passionate kiss from my mouth to yours I like you
Kissing 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.
Except that as the article says many animals kiss, not just humans.
I 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.
Kissing 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.
I 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.
Or, kissing is just a subset of skin to skin touching, using sensitive body parts. Not so different from holding hands.
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Or, kissing is just a subset of skin to skin touching, using sensitive body parts. Not so different from holding hands.
Holding hands may also be from when babies latch on and don't let go because of the necessity of holding on to the parent. My friend's 2 year old grabbed my hand recently and it reminded me of their iron grip.
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