Survival of the Pheremones
Aug. 20th, 2004 01:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ceebeegeeRead this in Carolyn Hax's Washington Post webchat today:
One mystery solved: I wondered why so many times two people seem so right for each other but just can't fall in love.
It turns out that people instinctively are attracted to others whose immune system is different from their own--and smelling a person's phereomones tells you if their immune system is different from yours.
Read this in the book "Survival of the Prettiest" which helped me understand the world better!
Interesting. Too reductive though--for one thing, how come there are so many unrequited attractions? But the book sounds interesting.
One mystery solved: I wondered why so many times two people seem so right for each other but just can't fall in love.
It turns out that people instinctively are attracted to others whose immune system is different from their own--and smelling a person's phereomones tells you if their immune system is different from yours.
Read this in the book "Survival of the Prettiest" which helped me understand the world better!
Interesting. Too reductive though--for one thing, how come there are so many unrequited attractions? But the book sounds interesting.
