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...assign values to those scents, recognizing that, say, putrefying flesh can carry disease and thus recoiling from its smell and that warm cookies carry the promise of vanilla, sugar and butter and thus being drawn to them. Other humans carry telltale smells of their own, and those can affect us in equally powerful ways...
...assign values to those scents, recognizing that, say, putrefying flesh can carry disease and thus recoiling from its smell and that warm cookies carry the promise of vanilla, sugar and butter and thus being drawn to them. Other humans carry telltale smells of their own, and those can affect us in equally powerful ways...
...rest? The answer is almost certainly smell. Pheromones-or scent-signaling chemicals-are known to exist among animals, and while scientists have had a hard time unraveling the pheromonal system in humans, they have isolated a few of the compounds. One type, known as driver pheromones, appears to affect the endocrine systems of others. Since the endocrine system plays a critical role in the timing of menstruation, there is at least a strong circumstantial case that the two are linked. "It's thought that there is a driver female who gives off something that changes the onset of menstruation...
Researchers have discovered seven new genes that affect cholesterol levels in humans and that may influence the risk of heart disease...
According to Harley, complex zoning laws have in part caused middle and lower-class Egyptians to construct many “illegal” residences squeezed next to each other on arable land. The problems associated with sprawl affect all Cairenes, since these “suburbs” occupy land that could be used to feed Egypt’s swelling population. Cairo is Africa’s largest city...