00:00Have you always wondered why we kiss?
00:03I mean, who was the first person to look at another human being and think,
00:07You know what? I should press my food hole against their food hole.
00:11For the answer, we travel back thousands of years
00:14to a time when parents may have taken a cue from nature
00:17and would chew food first, then pass it directly into their baby's mouth.
00:22And that feeding habit evolved into the act of kissing.
00:26This is true. Kissing may trace its roots to your prehistoric parents
00:31acting like human pelicans.
00:34In purely scientific terms, swapping spit comes with a complimentary trip
00:39to the dopamine refill station.
00:42And once the brain got a hold of that info, it was like,
00:45Whatever that was, please do it again.
00:48So in the end, kissing is a rather strange practice
00:51that apparently grew out of even stranger circumstances.
00:56Always wondered. Stream it now, wherever you get your podcasts.
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