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Oxytocin’s Reputation as the ‘Love Hormone’ Might Be Overrated
New research Friday might complicate the perception of oxytocin as the so-called “love hormone.” Scientists have found that prairie voles that were genetically bred without oxytocin receptors can still mate with others and breastfeed their children — behaviours long closely linked to the hormone. While oxytocin is still important to voles and other animals, including…