Tristram Wyatt: The smelly mystery of the human pheromone
Тристръм Уайът: Миризливата мистерия на човешкия феромон
Do humans have pheromones? Tristram Wyatt is on the case. A researcher at Oxford, Wyatt is interested in the evolution of pheromones throughout the animal kingdom. Full bio
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molecules that we give off.
направя до края на беседата,
confusions in pheromones,
search of these molecules,
by Adolf Butenandt and his team,
за химическия анализ.
molecule on the males
never been done with humans:
толкова добре и под водата,
секрет на тези места
кое не е добре да се помирише
people from other countries.
за хора от други страни.
have particularly good ones.
да се искат проби от хората.
of the world's population
was studying the silk moth.
изучава копринения молец.
actually very impressed by.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Tristram Wyatt - ZoologistDo humans have pheromones? Tristram Wyatt is on the case. A researcher at Oxford, Wyatt is interested in the evolution of pheromones throughout the animal kingdom.
Why you should listen
Tristram Wyatt wants to understand the messages that animals send with their smell. At Oxford, he researches the intersection of pheromone evolution and animal behavior, particularly in mammals. He's interested in the distinction between pheromones, the chemical signals a species produces, and each individual's signature mixture of distinct molecules. The zoologist has discovered some surprising biological coincidences along the way — like the fact that Asian elephants have the same female sex pheromones as 140 species of moths.
Wyatt is the author of Pheromones and Animal Behavior.
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