I just noticed this article Human Odor May Be New Tool for Identity
written by Rachel Balik at findingDulcinea. Apparently, mice can identify each other by body odor, regardless of what they eat. The study's results may suggest, according to some scientists, that humans may be capable of the same behavior. In fact, they are suggesting that body odor could replace fingerprints? That would make for some interesting conversation at the police department. So now, gang lords and assassins on shows like Law and Order and 24 will not only have to get their fingerprints burned off, but they'll have what other people's sweat glands implanted in their skin. EWWWW!!
And on a more serious note Balik also touches on a report about pheromenes. I find this an interesting plot point. I mean wouldn't it be kind of sad if everything you were looking for in a person common interests, looks, books, movies, music, sports, and values meant nothing and that the laws of attraction were all predetermined by one little microscopic lego block (that's as scientific as this blog is getting) matching or rather fitting someone else's.
TRAGIC!
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I bet Angelina smells good.
Well, this is the way lions in the jungle court one another. They NEVER discuss books or values, just a few sniffs. Sure, physical appearance counts for something to, but nearly as much as odor. And lions have a lower divorce rate than us humans, not to mention virtually no domestic violence.
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