Source:  NEUROSCIENCE NEWS, 11/22/21

Parents of newborns will describe in detail, to anyone willing to listen, the wonder that is their baby’s smell—and they might not be in the wrong. A new study by researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science suggests that a molecule excreted by humans, and perhaps particularly by babies, plays an important social role: regulating aggression in adults. The study, led by Dr. Eva Mishor from Prof. Noam Sobel’s research group at Weizmann’s Brain Sciences Department and the Azrieli Institute for Human Brain Imaging and Research, has found that a molecule that can likely be sensed by all mammals...

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