Tristram Wyatt: The smelly mystery of the human pheromone
Tristram Wyatt: İnsan feromonunun kokulu gizemi
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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1959 yılında türetildi.
molecules that we give off.
confusions in pheromones,
search of these molecules,
by Adolf Butenandt and his team,
bu tercihlerinin önemli bir gerekçesi vardı,
molecule on the males
never been done with humans:
people from other countries.
bu peyniri sevmek akıl almaz birşey.
have particularly good ones.
of the world's population
was studying the silk moth.
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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