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Chemical emitted by babies could make men more docile, women more aggressive

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I don’t know if this counts as a pheromone, but babies definitely emit _something_. As a recent father, I have had numerous people remark on how wonderful babies smell after smelling my child. I can’t smell anything. People who can smell this particular smell seem very perplexed that I can’t smell it.

For serious? The top of my kids heads smelled intoxicating for the first 6-9 months. There is still a special scent but not quite the same. And I smell it on other babies, too. It’s like smelling breast milk, but emanating from the Fontainelle

I always just assumed it was some transition from vernix covered skin to skin with healthy bacteria which we distinguish as “no smell” but almost certainly has a smell. Baby skin is pretty awesome though, as alpha male as it sounds it definitely made me want extra cuddles /s

Re: Chemical emitted by babies could make men more docile, women more aggressive

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the worst chemical warfare my kid did on me was when they were being breastfed. No matter how much sleep I had, no matter how energetic I felt, as soon as IT started latching and sucking away I just get so sleepy, always had to walk away to get anything done, otherwise I would've just napped right there and then!

Should have just napped then. Stop trying to fight yourself

You're right, I eventually scheduled my life around feeding/napping time. Previously I thought that's the free time when I can go away to do some chores such naivety in the face of chemical warfare perfected through evolution hah

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Technically 23 and Me monetized this as the fun holiday gift for everyone + the reddit thread you post in the aftermath.

My wife is on a number of genetic genealogy Facebook groups, and this time of year is peak season for confused new posters who are desperately trying to get some rationalization as to why their father (or mother!) didn't match with them on 23andMe. Many just cannot accept reality and continue posting convoluted possible reasons ("23andMe messed up both me and my fathers tests, but we both still matched with lots of o…

In a world which contains huge, systematic lab screw-ups (such as the FBI Crime Lab scandals), is there good reason to believe that 23andMe is particularly reliable and competent? Vs...one of our clients at $DayJob is a home mold inspection lab. Keeping their modest mold lab Officially Certified requires daily duplication, replication, etc. of dozens of individual test results, plus statistical analysis of those, plus...
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