{"id":33383,"date":"2025-11-19T06:33:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T01:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/neanderthals-and-early-humans-likely-to-have-kissed-say-scientists\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T06:33:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T01:03:06","slug":"neanderthals-and-early-humans-likely-to-have-kissed-say-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/neanderthals-and-early-humans-likely-to-have-kissed-say-scientists\/","title":{"rendered":"Neanderthals and early humans \u2018likely to have kissed\u2019, say scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nshorts-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nshorts-cat lang-en\">\u090f\u0928 \u0936\u0949\u0930\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0938'<\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-headline\">Neanderthals and early humans \u2018likely to have kissed\u2019, say scientists<\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-summary\">Study from University of Oxford looks into evolutionary origins of kissing and its role in relations between speciesFrom Gal\u00e1pagos albatrosses to polar bears, chimpanzees to orangutans, certain species appear to kiss. Now researchers suggest Neanderthals did it too \u2013 and might even have locked lips with modern humans.It is not the first time scientists have suggested Neanderthals and early modern humans were intimately acquainted. Among previous studies, researchers have found humans and their thick-browed cousins shared the same mouth microbe for hundreds of thousands of years after the two species split, suggesting they swapped saliva. Continue reading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2025\/nov\/19\/neanderthals-early-humans-kissed-research-evolution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nshorts-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-audio-section\" style=\"margin-top:15px;padding:10px;background:#f5f5f5;border-radius:5px\"><strong>Listen:<\/strong> <audio controls style=\"width:100%;margin:10px 0\">Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:5px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&#038;tl=en&#038;client=tw-ob&#038;q=Study+from+University+of+Oxford+looks+into+evolutionary+origins+of+kissing+and+its+role+in+relations+between+speciesFrom+Gal%C3%A1pagos+albatrosses+to+polar+bears%2C+chimpanzees+to+orangutans%2C+certain+speci\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#0073aa;text-decoration:none\">\u2193 Download Audio<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N Shorts Neanderthals and early humans \u2018likely to have kissed\u2019, say scientists Study from University of Oxford looks into evolutionary origins of kissing and its role in relations between speciesFrom Gal\u00e1pagos albatrosses to polar bears, chimpanzees to orangutans, certain species appear to kiss. Now researchers suggest Neanderthals did it too \u2013 and might even have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-shorts-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33384,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33383\/revisions\/33384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}