The Scientific Reason Someone Befriends You Might Freak You Out … Just A Bit

We’re free-thinking, evolved creatures, so science doesn’t play a part in our choices, right? Except that’s not completely true. There’s a reason behind why we pick some of our friends, and it’s more predestined than we realize. Oh, science, you’re so deliciously strange.

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Aug 26, 2014

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