> Wedekind found that the women overwhelmingly preferred the T-shirt smells of men who had the most dissimilar MHCs to their own.
Is deodorant making people more likely to have kids with closely genetically individuals? It would be funny that being cleaner and polite increased genetic diseases. And I do not mean close relatives, but non relatives that just by chance are genetically similar.
Is there any study about how generic diversity has changed thru the centuries?
Read about this singles dating event in Russia where they took cotton swabs swiped underneath each person's armpits and put them into little glass jars. Everyone then went around smelling each one and matched with each other based on which jar scent they liked the most. Wish I still had it. Definitely a novel if not more primal way to choose a partner.
Is deodorant making people more likely to have kids with closely genetically individuals? It would be funny that being cleaner and polite increased genetic diseases. And I do not mean close relatives, but non relatives that just by chance are genetically similar.
Is there any study about how generic diversity has changed thru the centuries?
Which is excerpted from the book The Joy of Sweat: The Strange Science of Perspiration by Sarah Everts