Greg Laden's got the first science blog review of The Science of Kissing. He begins with a sweet and funny personal kissing story (a must-read for anyone who knows Greg!) followed by a thoughtful and detailed response to the book. Here's an excerpt:
The Science of Kissing: What Our Lips Are Telling Us, a new book by Sheril Kirshenbaum has a bunch more about kissing, and is a must read for anyone who wants to try out kissing (you may like it) and keep it scientific. You would think that kissing is pretty basic. A few different animals seem to do it, and we've all seen the pictures of chimps kissing. So, humans have always kissed, and it's a basic feature of our species and we all do it and it's kind of wet and messy and what else can you really say about it? But if that is what ...
