[Hans Blom, 960620
(Jeff Vancouver 960620.1700)
I grad student of mine is working on the issue of influence among
autonomous control systems (i.e., humans) and wanted to know how you all
might explain the McClintock effect. The McClintock effect is the effect
of the "menstrual synchrony" of female friends and roommates. Somehow
the sweat that woman secret can influence the menstrual cycles of other
woman. The result is, apparently, new reference values for menstrual
timing. Any ideas of how this might be happening?
Constant Huygens noted, several centuries ago, that (pendulum) clocks
-- he seems to have been their inventor -- mounted on a common
platform start to tick synchronously. Might this be related?
Greetings,
Hans Blom