Who was the first person to suggest the existance of human pheromones? Not prove, just suggest.?
I'm writing a 20-page science report on pheromones for school, and I need to know who even thought of pheromones being in humans. Again, I do not mean who proved it or provided a good argument for it (like Martha McClintock), but the first person to suggest it.
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A pheromone is any chemical or set of chemicals produced by a living organism that transmits a message to other members of the same species. eg: alarm pheromones, food trail pheromones, sex pheromones, and many others that affect behavior or physiology. Their use among insects has been particularly well documented, although many vertebrates and plants also communicate using pheromones. The existence of human pheromones is debated.
Terence McKenna proposed in his book "Food of the Gods" the controversial idea of exopheromones as chemical signals between, as opposed to among a single, species. He suggested that certain chemicals produced in abundance in various hallucinogenic plants and fungi, such as dimethyltriptamine and psilocybin may act as pheromones produced by one species (the vegetal) waiting for absorption by various others (for example, early primates or hominids). In this way a kind of ecological pheromonal system may be at work among species and ecosystems that have coevolved closely for long stretches of time.
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I don't know for sure but I first heard about pheromones when some company was hawking their perfume for women & cologne for men & claimed to have the ingredient "human pheromones" in it. It was advertised as being a natural attraction to the opposite sex, like an aphrodisiac or something.
What can u tell me about human pheromones.Pheromones generated in human male sweat is known to attract female?
Androstedionone, a breakdown product of testosterone secreted in male sweat and other body fluids has been found to have pheromonal activity, i.e., sexually arouse women.
When women smelled this, researchers found an increase in cortisol level, blood pressure, heart rate and breathing, indicating physiological arousal within 15 minutes of sniffing and lasting for about an hour.
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The smell of androstadienone, a chemical component of male sweat, maintains higher levels of cortisol in females. The scientists suggest that the ability of this compound to influence the endocrine balance of the opposite sex makes it a human pheromonal chemosignal.
What's the deal with human pheromones? I mean do some people give off more of a scent than others?
Disclaimer: My apologies if I screw any of this up! I'm an academic advisor, not a molecular geneticist!
I've seen some psychology research articles on the topic. There is definitely evidence that we can sense pheromones and there are perfumes on the market that supposedly provide human pheromone "scents," but pseudo_obscure is correct in that they can't acutally be "smelled." I may have experienced this first hand and can say that if she was wearing a pheromone perfume then that would explain my irrational attraction to someone that I ultimately didn't really like. She'd get within a foot or two though and suddenly it was like my brain turned off.
The natural pheromone is given off through the skin and enhanced via sweat (and my example person was definitely not working out, so...?). Basically, you could probably naturally increase your pheromone "scent" by exercising. (She was apparently attracted to me during a period where I was working out on a regular basis, then seemed to start to lose interest after she convinced me to stop working out as much!)
Pheromones are also likely modified by another, important, factor: immunities. One sweat-smelling experiment had the sweat of men that were from different continents with different immunities and had women chose the best man from sweaty shirts (yech). Apparently, we are also attracted to people that will maximize the sum of our immunities. However, pseudo_obscure makes me wonder if this selection process is interrupted by bc pills. My guess is that the "not-like-dad" but "not totally different" means someone with *some* similar immunities because there is a certain logic by which the attraction system operates that also selects for some level of proximity - i.e. your body doesn't expect your international friend to be staying.
In conjunction with information about genome mapping that I learned yesterday from a PBS show, it seems that there is likewise a stable progression of lineage such that changes in genetics happen at regular generational intervals. It could be that we are talking about the mechanism by which someone (mind you, of a massive pool of potential someones) slightly different is selected so that the same process that has been going on for tens of thousands of years continues.
So that leaves me with an interesting question: Would the pill and pheromone "perfume" be interrupting a tried and true evolutionary mechanism? Are we totally screwing up who we can and should be falling in love with and, as a result - since it sounds like people then start dating people with our parents' immunities - screwing up our evolving immune systems to the point of vulnerability?
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It was my understanding that people produce pheromones but we no longer have the ability to detect them, in other words humans do not have the organs necessary.
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Yeah some people emit more than others. There are even "pheromone pefumes" (synthetically produced human pheromones) for people who want an extra burst of them!
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Pheromones don't play by the rules--most of the time you can't smell them. People unconsciously choose their mates based (in some small part) on their pheromones. It turns out that women avoid mating with men whose pheromones closely resemble their dad's. They also tend to avoid mating with men whose pheromones are substantially different from their own.
Weirdly, women on birth control pills break the above rules, and may mate with men who have pheromones similar to their fathers. This leads to complications when they go off the pill, and find that the "spark" of love they felt fades away.
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Yes! And each of us has a slightly different scent, as you so nicely put it.
What is it that makes deoderants such big sellers?!!
Can an alpha female dog react to human pheromones?
I have noticed that our spayed corgi female becomes, well, extremely "female doggy" right around the time of my daughter's period each month. In fact, I can always tell when my daughter is having hers by how Faye acts around Dodie, our other, submissive female dog. She snaps with very little provocation, and seems to have a very tight radius of body space around her. Woe to Dodie, if she happens to stray inside that circle.
Has anyone else noticed this phenomenon with their alphas?
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yes they can... any dog can.. not just the Alpha dogs... but some react differently.
some have more of a sense of it than others...
humans can react too... you probably heard that women who spend alot of time together begin to experience the same monthly cycles
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yes
How do I make my own male human pheromones to attract females?
you can get some at
http://www.pheromones-store.comAnswer 1:
Can anyone tell me how to attract a guy?
XD!!
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Answer 2:
Assuming you're male, then you are already producing them - they are secreted by your sweat glands in you armpits. Pheromones can only do so much, however. You still need to have other qualities which will keep females around you. Pheromones are not hypnotic, mind altering scents, which will make girls fall madly in lust with you (despite what the advertisements say). They just subtly increase attractiveness in certain circumstances. I think the male pheromone is called 16-androstene.
Here is a link to one study.
Good luck with it.
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Because of the complexity of a human, pheremones do not function as they do in the animal kingdom. You secrete them but dont expect any dates because of it.
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