Love really is blind, or at least blinkered
Attractive people of the opposite sex are repulsive when you're in love, finds a study perhaps so you gain a reproductive advantage pheedo.com |
Love stops partners from sleeping around
Romantic thoughts about a regular partner help to keep us from straying into illicit sexual liaisons (full text available to subscribers) pheedo.com |
Love hormone boosts strangers' sex appeal
Oxytocin – a chemical best known for cementing the bond between a mother and her newborn child – could also play a part in finding a mate feeds.newscientist.com |
Breathing new life into 'old' eggs
Eggs donated by young women could be used to repair the damaged eggs of older women, upping the chances that they can be fertilised feeds.newscientist.com |
Evolutionary sex wars continue despite peace treaties
Beetles show that evolutionary male-female tugs-of-war may not be halted by the emergence of single-sex traits feeds.newscientist.com |