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Women choose romantic partners resembling their father in body odour

2023-01-31

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Women tend to choose partners who resemble their father in certain characteristics. In non-human mammals, similar parental imprinting-like effects are often odour-mediated1,2, which requires not only learning of parental odour but also similarity between parents and prospective mates in the microbial communities responsible for production of the critical volatile compounds. Here, in lig...

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Literature Corpus work: 5b9e1eb7-46a3-52b1-ad51-954092732409
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2531352/v1

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