Researchers from the Southern Medical University in Guangzhou have revealed that people who enjoy sniffing other people s BO may also have an unusually high sex drive.
It s not just with sweat, however, as even the scent receptors for perfume may be waning in intensity, according to a team of researchers led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The findings suggest that scent preserves a signal of the mother s presence even in her absence, according to researchers at the Center for Developmental Social Neuroscience in Israel.
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