Tuesday, November 19, 2019

The strange anomaly of Human Smell - is it simply an anomaly of modern Westernized civilization?



https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/suppl/10.1142/p957/suppl_file/p957_intro.pdf

The relationship between sex and smell drives much of animal behaviour, and the significance of the human loss of the vomeronasal organ — a part of the sense of smell in animals that responds to sex smells — is identified as a seminal event in the making of humankind.
 the chapters - an overview

 chapter 1 pdf

chapter 2 pdf








Humankind - only "one twenty millionth" of the history of Earth




and so... Sea Squirts it is!


and so our caecum became our appendix! Fascinating.

and so monogamy co-evolved with the human-adapted flea!!




Wow - BECAUSE humans can't smell sex ovulation THEREFORE we can be both monogamous AND communal at the same time! fascinating!














































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