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biofriendlyblogDec 3, 2010
FTA: “People want [pheromones] to exist,” he says. “It’s part of our need as humans to have belief in the unknown. We have the need to believe that certain things are happening beyond our senses.”
So true...makes them mysterious. ;)
macbookformeDec 3, 2010
It's a trap!
syntaxgsDec 3, 2010
LLLLLL Tis Whuikle Article Not the True bceosue My Dog the STINX HA,HA,,AHA x=-D
gvoakesDec 3, 2010
YES YOU'RE STILL ALIVE
seokungfuDec 3, 2010
tell this to a all-blazed-out horny she-male homosapientic mamal....
onlinedatingstarsDec 3, 2010
amazed to know this
siberiankhatruDec 3, 2010
Must be why that stuff they sell tends to attract more bees than people
netalphasoftDec 3, 2010
good story www.hionstocks.com
theapeisbossDec 3, 2010
perhaps this is a semantic issue. Several chemicals have been shown to alter the behavior of same-species mammals, and that is by definition a pheromone. See the following for one of many examples:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2669936/
Also-
alarm signaling in mice
delay of infanticide
familial recognition
territory marking with sebaceous glands, urine, or other body excrement
pheromones have been shown to be the operator in all of the above systems.
bmorekarlDec 3, 2010
You should read the article. He's not saying mammals don't read chemical signals and react appropriately. He's saying this is learned behavior. Yes dogs mark a firehydrant and read markings left by other dogs, but the smell doesn't cause the knowledge any more than the words I'm typing cause you to understand them.
Literacy causes people to understand the words they read, just as dogs learn to read other dogs' tags. Of course you would have had to read the article to get this nuance.
theapeisbossDec 3, 2010
I caught the nuance. Some pheromones in insects and fishes involve learned behavior. Take, for example, the pheromones released by fathead minnows result in learned predator avoidance. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/brill/beh/2002/00000139/00000007/art00005 .
What causes behavior is natural selection, and natural selection caused all of the pheromones to exist within species.
Hence my statement that his argument is all about semantics.
FirstMackerelDec 3, 2010
I agree, it's a semantic issue. You can call mammalian pheromones something else if you like, but they are still pheromones.
bricktamalandDec 3, 2010
So I've been lied to all these years by the ubiquitous in-flight magazine pheromone ads?
bmorekarlDec 3, 2010
No, it must be true. Airtran's unwashed rabble flight compartment has a bathroom soap labled something like "Low-Fare foaming handwash ... for frugal bouquet" Anybody back me up on this? I wish I'd made an excuse on my exit to duck into the first class bathroom and see how their soap was labeled.
sweetysengravinDec 3, 2010
Pheromones is a good thing animals sense the smell of human pheromones and try to block it
sweetysengravinDec 3, 2010
Pheromones is a good thing for humans but animals sense the smell of the humans pheromones and sometimes become hyper intensed by it and become aggressive.