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Love Stinks! And Women Know It! by SunSentinel.com
This is a great article from Jamie Talan at Newsday. Turns out, according to one University of New Mexico study, the way a man smells and whether he is genetically dissimilar to you are key factors in whether or not he'll get a date. Read on...
The term "opposites attract" has new meaning in a lab at the University of New Mexico, where scientists have discovered that women are more attracted to men who are genetically dissimilar to them.
After studying 48 romantic couples, researchers found women were more apt to find their partners less sexually desirable and more likely to be unfaithful if they shared similar sets of certain genes than if the genes varied.
The genes studied are called major histocompatibility complex, or MHC. They're part of the immune system responsible for recognizing things not part of the self, thus alerting the troops to fend off foreign invaders. MHC genes, it turns out, also are responsible for how a person smells, and how another person will interpret that smell.
For more, log on to http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-1212lovestinks,0,4198179.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines
This is a great article from Jamie Talan at Newsday. Turns out, according to one University of New Mexico study, the way a man smells and whether he is genetically dissimilar to you are key factors in whether or not he'll get a date. Read on...
The term "opposites attract" has new meaning in a lab at the University of New Mexico, where scientists have discovered that women are more attracted to men who are genetically dissimilar to them.
After studying 48 romantic couples, researchers found women were more apt to find their partners less sexually desirable and more likely to be unfaithful if they shared similar sets of certain genes than if the genes varied.
The genes studied are called major histocompatibility complex, or MHC. They're part of the immune system responsible for recognizing things not part of the self, thus alerting the troops to fend off foreign invaders. MHC genes, it turns out, also are responsible for how a person smells, and how another person will interpret that smell.
For more, log on to http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-1212lovestinks,0,4198179.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines