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A pheromone is defined as a substance that causes a response in a natural behavioral response in another animal of the same species. There are an abundant amount of pheromones presently. For instance the alarm pheromones sex pheromones, food trail pheromones, and many others that affect behavior. Pheromonal use among insects has been well documented, even though many plants and vertebrates communicate using pheromones.
Pheromones are believed to be found throughout the world and have been traced back to the most ancient form of animal communication. For example the word pheromones originated from the Roman culture because it was believed soldiers had this intoxicating scent that attracted women. Yet in fact it was the heavy musky smell …show more content…

Scientific studies have now shown that women are equally affected by pheromones from both sexes. Women who usually experience short or long menstrual cycles get somewhat closer cycles after regularly inhaling male essence which has been described as a certain amount of body odor, sweat, and hormones. Females who have been exposed to other female pheromones for certain durations of time whether it is months or years tend to have experienced relatively insync menstruated cycles after few months. This study has confirmed a long disputed theory that females no matter what race or relation menstruate at coinciding times. Over the last couple of decades pheromones have been documented in over hundreds if not thousands of types of animals and insects. Yet, in most cases particularly mammals there is an organ specialized in detection located in the inner parts of the nose or inside the oral cavity. This organ is sometimes called the vomeronasal organ or when used around scientists the VNO organ. There has been an abundance of evidence that say that human pheromones really do exist. For example a newborn would preferably want a piece of clothing worn by its parents or more so the mother because the pheromones of the mother is what the baby has known since the beginning of its life. New experimental research suggests that both human

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