This Just In: People Smell

SAPHRguru writes "New Scientist reports (10 Nov) that researchers may have taken a big step towards solving the mystery of how humans detect pheromones... we do it through our noses! Strange, I always thought I responded to chemical cues through my mouth (especially in brownies)!"

Comments

Now I have proof that my nose smells

[the_other_one]

Now I can tell all those people that tell me that my feet smell that they are wrong.

Brownies?

[joey shabadu]

Is he talking about *special* brownies?

Urine as a social signal

[Anonymous Coward]

The team is now trying to determine how the process may work in humans. "But we don't generally use urine as a social signal," notes Katz.

Hey, speak for yourself, Professor Science! I find pissing in the direction of someone I don't like to be much easier and cleaner than flinging my feces at them and it gets the point across just as effectively!

Re:No VMO in humans?

[Alsee]

So when did it vanish

Damnit damnit damnit!

You travel 42,000 light years, you abduct a sample life form in stasis, you spend over a year constructing a simulated enviornment, you fill that enviornment with a bunch of simulated life forms, and some third-rate contractor leaves out the damn VMOs!

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