From: Steven Eiger (eiger@montana.edu)
Date: Wed Nov 15 2000 - 09:57:26 PST
Message-Id: <l03102801b6387ad743ac@[153.90.150.107]> Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 10:57:26 -0700 From: Steven Eiger <eiger@montana.edu> Subject: Re: pinhole Human pheremones
Geoff, I also remember seeing a breqkthrough on human pheromones recently.
Go to medline,
http://igm.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/doler?account=++&password=++&datafile=medline tha
t is the best search engine. There are over 300 recent papers on this,
some extremely interesting e.g. implications in anorexia nervosa etc. It
has been known for some time that women begin to cycle together when they
are in close contact, e.g. college dormitories, good review is in following
site: http://www.ishipress.com/humanodo.htm The new data I read about had
something to do with choosing mates. We know so much more about insects
because they are easier to study, they do not protest effectively. Humans
evolved pheromones prior to the development of frequent showers. Insects
have not decided that body odor is gauche. They are more Continental in
their outlook. Your problem was probably that Pheromones has two o's in
it and only two e's.
>I was talking about pheremones to my chem class today, and I wasn't certain
>about the current state of research about human pheremones. I remember
>reading something that within the past year, they (the mythical 'they') had
>discovered a human pheremone.
>
> What does this pheremone control?
> How did they discover it?
> Are there any sex pheremones? (Of course, this was the question students
>were
> most interested in)
> Why are there so many more insect pheremones discovered than human
>pheremones?
>
>Thanks
>-Geoff
>Living by Chemistry
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>
Steven Eiger, Ph.D.
Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience and the WWAMI Medical Education
Program
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