Illustration of Masripithecus moghraensis by Mauricio Antón. A 17- to 18-million-year-old ape from Egypt suggests that the Middle East was a key centre in early hominoid evolution. For decades, the early evolution of apes has been reconstructed from a narrow...
Le Moustier Neanderthal Skull reconstitution Neues Museum Berlin Stone Age Gallery, Neues Museum, Berlin, Germany. Credit: Gary Todd, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. A new study has found evidence that kissing evolved in the common ancestor of humans and other large apes...