Tuesday, December 30, 2008

How Visiting Your Family Warps Your Brain

News from the Frontiers in Evolutionary Neuroscience via the Discovery channel (and yes, that's the real headline):

"We like to be around people that look more like us, but we do not find them as sexually attractive," added Platek, editor-in-chief of the journal Frontiers in Evolutionary Neuroscience. "I think it is linked to our subconscious ability to detect facial resemblances so we avoid lusting after those that may be related to us."

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