In her research, she approaches sexual attraction as the first step in speciation. Since sexual attraction can directly lead to assortative mating, we aim to understand which genes are involved in within-species variation and which factors may cause variation in sexual attraction.
Astrid Groot
At the University of Amsterdam, Astrid Groot researches how sexual attraction is involved in the initial divergence of populations.
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Audience participating in performance by Klara…
How do you react to somebody else's smell? With this performance, during Odorama: Scent and Scentsuality, Klara Rabat invites the audience to be part of a live-smelling installation.
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Doing Aerobics and creating sweaty armpits
Warm up the audience and their armpits to participate in Love Sweat Love, a smelly experiment created by artist Lauryn Mannigel . Put your cotton pad under the arm and smell your possible attraction.
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Explaining the attraction of scent
Why are we attracted to some people and not to others? Many answers that try to explain sexual attraction point towards pheromones as a biological explanation for strong bodily desire. During this...
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Image: Anisa Xhomaqi
How does scentsual attraction work?
Why are we attracted to some people and not to others? Many answers that try to explain sexual attraction point towards pheromones as a biological explanation for strong bodily desire. During this...