We all know people who can flirt with anyone, and pretty much always get what they want.
It might seem like they hold the key to a mysterious art – but actually they are just indulging their most basic instincts.
Flirting is primal: we are genetically programmed to flirt to perpetuate the human race.
To flirt means to attract a mate; to have sex means to reproduce. Our lives literally depend on it.
For some though, flirting does not come naturally. They have all the coquettish allure of a crab stick. For those people, we have science.
Webster University in St Lewis has come up with a scientific guide to flirting, and Business Insider have made it into a neat video.
You can thank us/them later.
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