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Love May Be in the Air, But It Started in the Genes

Apr 10, 2007

In the New York Times science section today, the focus is on sex and attraction. Nicholas Wade contributes a piece about how "human sexual behavior is not a free-form performance, biologists are finding, but is guided at every turn by genetic programs," he writes.

 

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