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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi
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To: BlueCrab who wrote (23490)4/27/1999 9:35:00 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (1) of 71178
 
Interestingly enough, we mate with those who smell the least like us. I remember reading about the research, it was quite elegant, if research involving human body odor could be considered elegant, and I admit that my definition of elegant is a bit strange. They let nubile, ovulating women smell tee-shirts which had been worn by young men, and asked them which one smelled the most attractive, sexually. The women picked the shirts which were worn by the men who were the least similar to them, genetically.

The authors posited that it was a survival trait because it would lead to heterozygy (is that the noun for heterozygous? heterozygousness?)(heterozygosity?), which is better than homozygy-whatsit because there is more than one gene if one is defective.

But you may be on to something. No wonder we are like scorpions in a bottle.
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