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Dads can recognise their own children based on their body odour

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Dads were able to recognise their own children by smell alone a third of the time.

Dads rated their own child's smell as more pleasant than other kids' odour.

This may be an evolutionary 'barrier' against incest between fathers and daughters.

Researchers at Technical University of Dresden found that smell-based connection is important to a strong relationship.

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87

Informative language

90

Neutral language

14

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

53

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likely offensive

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not hateful

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not detected

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long-living

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