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HUMAN PHEROMONES
human sense of smell and pheromones
The small size of our olfactory bulb does not mean that for us, micro osmic beings, the olfactory sense is less important that it is for animals better equipped (macro osmici), because we decipher olfactory messages also from regions of the brain that do not exist in other mammals.
Chemical communication (olfactory) has a lot of relevance in various area of human behavior: In fact our body smell reflects our physiological state and inner metabolism, our diet, our sex gender and reproductive phase, and our health (diseases makes us produce characteristic smells).
These chemical (smelling) clues are often those that determine our social choices of frequentation and above all our mating choices (choice of the partner).
In the same optic, olfactory recognition of our own family members is of utter importance in our social and reproductive behaviors; incest is not only a social taboo, it is an olfactory biological one as well. For all mammals the odor of the near relatives is inhibitory of the reproductive function.
This “family” smell results from the production of body smells (pheromones) controlled by the MHC gene.
This gene makes everyone of us a produce a personal scent that communicates to others of the specy the immune patrimony that we have genetically inherited (see report N° 2).
The control that this smell exercises on our behavior is so powerful that it is really astonishing, because reflecting on the human tendency to systematical smash all taboos, only the existence of this olfactory taboo can explain that incest is so little spread.
The existence in the human being of an active secondary olfactory organ, whose role is to recognize pheromones , the vomeronasal organ, is still contested. It is to be noticed though, that a pharmaceutical company pretends to have discovered a new therapy through this organ, and produces drugs to be inhaled, based on molecules of their patent called Vomeropherines
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