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The earliest evidence for kissing, and engineering crops to clone themselves

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The Relationship Between Romantic Kissing and Disease Transmission

In the ancient Mesopotamia, there seems to have been a clear difference in the sense that you had your romantic kissing. And at the same time, it was not preferably seen on the streets. So interesting. Let's turn now to the link with disease transmission. It kind of seems like that link being called out and people trying to pin it down is what's brought up this debate about when kissing a virgin. Can you draw out what's going on with that?

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