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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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 Posted - 07/12/2006 : 19:15:58
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This aromatic information comes from a LiveScience article: quote:
Moms Prefer Smell of Their Own Baby's Poop
By Ker Than
LiveScience Staff Writer
posted: 12 July 2006
01:18 pm ET
Scientists find that moms consistently rank the stink of their baby's "number two" as No. 1.
In a new study, 13 mothers were asked to sniff soiled diapers belonging to both their own child and others from an unrelated baby. The women consistently ranked the smell of their own child's feces as less revolting than that of other babies.
This effect persisted even when the diapers were purposely mislabeled.
One possible explanation is that the mothers were simply more accustomed to their their baby's stink and therefore found it less repulsive. A more intriguing possibility, the researchers say, is that the mothers' reactions are an evolutionary adaptation allowing them to overcome their natural disgust so that they can properly care for their babies.
The study, led by Trevor Case of Macquarie University in Australia, will be detailed in an upcoming issue of the journal Evolution and Human Behavior.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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R.Wreck
SFN Regular
USA
1191 Posts |
Posted - 07/14/2006 : 15:04:26 [Permalink]
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In a new study, 13 mothers were asked to sniff soiled diapers belonging to both their own child and others from an unrelated baby.
Changing the damn things was bad enough. Why in the world would anyone volunteer for this type of olifactory abuse? |
The foundation of morality is to . . . give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibliities of knowledge.
T. H. Huxley
The Cattle Prod of Enlightened Compassion
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
USA
3834 Posts |
Posted - 07/14/2006 : 22:56:13 [Permalink]
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| Can't explain it but I can pooper scoop my own dog's poop but the thought of picking up another dog's is disgusting. So that has to be a non genetic issue, not that it is relevant to the smell thing. |
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ktesibios
SFN Regular
USA
505 Posts |
Posted - 07/15/2006 : 12:20:52 [Permalink]
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Reminds me of a bit of 20th dynasty Egyptian "wisdom literature" cited in Barbara Mertz's Temples, Tombs and Hieroglyphs
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Double the food you give to your mother, carry her as she carried you. For nine months she was burdened with you, and when you were born her burden was not lifted. For three years her breast was in your mouth, and though your filth was disgusting, her heart was not disgusted
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