As for our different ear odors, they came about because of a tiny change, just one little letter in the genetic alphabet that long ago granted an East Asian population a reprieve from both smelly underarms and
sticky earwax.
Not exact matches
About 98 percent of Europeans have the smelly - armpit version of the gene, and along with it comes
stickier and smellier
earwax.
A team of Japanese researchers has now tackled this
sticky subject and identified the gene that determines
earwax type.