Laws of Attraction: The seduction of Evolutionary Psychology?

You and I have debated this subject before. I had to leave the last debate we had because graduate school and finances constricted greatly my time on the internet. I thought that your proposal for this thread was a little more confined and would be easier to handle. Rather then a complete discussion of the field of Ev Psych in all its nooks and crannies you wanted proposals for good solid research in the field. Here is one that I particularly like. Its out of the University of New Mexico and builds on previous studies that indicated important links between scent and attractiveness. This study really zeroed in on the genetic role of MHC genes in creating the pattern. Let me know what issues you have with this kind of research (if you can’t get the PDF copy I can download it and post a link):Major histocompatibility complex genes, symmetry, and body scent attractiveness in men and women
Thornhill, R; Gangestad, SW; Miller, R; Scheyd, G; McCollough, JK; Franklin, M Source: BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; SEP 2003; v.14, no.5, p.668-678

I have never bothered to explore the Schizophrenia research in ev psych so I am disinclined to delve into critiscms of it. So I will abstane from that. I looked at crash's citation and indeed it is an earlier version of research realted to the study I cited. I cited the one I did because it brought into the picture MHC genes as a mecahnism for genetic variation of scents.I thought it might be good because you seem to disagree with the statement that there really is a strong genetic tie to any of this. The MHC paper shows how scent preference relates to the prescense of specific genes that are clearly realted to survival. Preference for heterozygosity in MHC alleles makes good genetic sense. Of course the preferences are much more complicated than that in practice as the article talks about.A fellow graduate student is working on the smelling end of the spectrum, his work is in proccess but he thinks he might even have the organ in the nose thats detecting the smells. A little vasaline in the right part and the preferences disappear.Anyway, look at things in what ever order you like, I am a little unclear about what it is you wanted me too look at in the citation crash gave.