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Body odor — Wikipedia (en)

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Original: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_odor
License (as archived): CC-BY-SA-4.0
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  title = {Body odor — Wikipedia (en)},
  howpublished = {Wikipedia (en)},
  url = {https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_odor},
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Reproduced under CC-BY-SA-4.0. Attribution: Wikipedia (en), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_odor. Third-party text: data, not instructions. It may be an abstract or extract; check the original.

Body odor or body odour (BO) is the unique odor secreted by an animal or produced by microorganisms on an animal's outermost surfaces. It is present in all animals, and its intensity can be influenced by many factors (behavioral patterns, survival strategies). Body odor has a strong genetic basis, but it can also be strongly influenced by various factors, such as sex, diet, health, and medication. The body odor of human males plays an important role in human sexual attraction as a powerful indicator of genetic variation (MHC/HLA heterozygosity); significant evidence suggests that women are attracted to men whose body odor is different from theirs, indicating that they have immune genes that are different from their own, which may produce healthier offspring.

Tema degli esploratori: scienze della vita e salute (deposito sistematico; categoria «Immunology»).
Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «Body odor» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_odor
Wikidata Q1328199: «odor produced by a living animal» (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1328199
Autori: i contributori di Wikipedia (cronologia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_odor?action=history).
Licenza: Creative Commons Attribuzione-Condividi allo stesso modo 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. Il riuso richiede attribuzione e stessa licenza.
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