In article <3c6ski$5cf at due.unit.no>, aka at nvg.unit.no (Anne Karin
Amundgaard) wrote:
>>> I have also heard a story about girls living close together. After a
> while they will get their period simultaneously! If humans have got
> sex-pheromone receptors, I don't know, but this story make it seem very
> possible.
>This has been well documented and shown to have an olfactory basis (both
in rats and humans) in a very nice set of papers by MK McClintock. I can
recommend the whole literature on human olfaction and behavior to anyone
with an interest in what makes us do what we do.
Eric Wassermann
