Matilda Brindle

Matilda Brindle, an evolutionary biologist at Oxford who studies primate social and sexual behaviour, explores why mouth-to-mouth contact evolved. She covers surprising kissing across animals. She traces deep primate origins. She contrasts platonic and sexual kissing and considers mate assessment, microbiome sharing, bonding and cultural learning.

Matilda Brindle, an evolutionary biologist at Oxford who studies social and sexual behavior, explores why kissing evolved. She explains how kissing appears across primates and may date back 21.5 million years. She discusses kissing’s possible roles in mate assessment, arousal, bonding, disease risk, and even hints that Neandertals likely kissed too.

Matilda Brindle, an evolutionary biologist at Oxford who studies the origins of animal behavior, explores why humans kiss. She traces kissing across primates, considers functions like mate assessment, microbiome sharing and pre‑mastication roots. The conversation highlights deep evolutionary roots, cultural variation, and surprising methods used to study this intimate, risky behavior.

Dr Matilda Brindle, an evolutionary biologist at Oxford who studies sexual and affiliative behaviours, explains why kissing appears across species. She describes surprising animal examples, explains how comparative and phylogenetic methods trace kissing back millions of years, and discusses intriguing evidence for kissing in Neanderthals. The conversation highlights gaps in research and why broader data would matter.

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