Tristram Wyatt: The smelly mystery of the human pheromone
טריסטרם וויט: הניחוח המסתורי של הפרומון האנושי
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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היא הומצאה ב-1959.
molecules that we give off.
confusions in pheromones,
search of these molecules,
by Adolf Butenandt and his team,
של אדולף בוטנאנד והצוות שלו,
molecule on the males
never been done with humans:
אך בני אדם כן,
של הורים
people from other countries.
עבור אנשים מארצות זרות.
have particularly good ones.
שניים מוצלחים במיוחד.
שיער בית השחי,
מביך לבקש מאנשים דוגמאות ממנו.
of the world's population
הקודמנים חסרי הריח הללו
בהן בכדי לייצר את הריחות
was studying the silk moth.
הוא חקר את טוואי המשי.
ההשפעות להן אנו טוענים.
actually very impressed by.
מאוד מתרשם ממנו.
וההצלחה הקודמת שלהם
של הארנב.
הנחנו מוט זכוכית נקי.
שזוהי דוגמה אחת
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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