The Great Pheromone Myth
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| Rating | : | 4.21 (738 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 080189347X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 296 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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Richard L. Doty is a professor and director of the Smell and Taste Center at the University of Pennsylvania, inventor of the widely used UPSIT test for assessing smell function, and author or editor of over 350 scientific publications and books, including the Handbook of Olfaction and Gustation, Taste and Smell in Health and Disease, and, most recently, The Neurology of Olfaction, coauthor
Along the way, he presents a fascinating tour of the diversity and complexity of chemical communication in mammals. This book will make a major contribution to the field by either galvanizing people to prove Doty wrong or applying brakes to a field that may be fast moving down the wrong track. (American Journal of Human Biology)The Great Pheromone Myth is a lovely mural of important developmental questions and phenomena.The book is also an excellent guide to a field of inquiry, a conceptual framework, and an admirable product of scholarship. It, however, goes further showing us how the pheromone concept has blinded us to the complex and multimodal character of olfactory phenomena and perception. The book is written in an easily accessible manner. Simply delightful reading. Far from thwarting your path to knowledge, Doty will remove some much neglected clutter and smoo
He demonstrates that there is no generally accepted scientific definition of what constitutes a mammalian pheromone and that attempts to divide stimuli and complex behaviors into pheromonal and nonpheromonal categories have primarily failed. Doty's controversial assertion belies a continued fascination with the pheromone concept, numerous claims of its chemical isolation, and what he sees as the wasted expenditure of hundreds of millions of dollars by industry and government. In this provocative book, renowned olfaction expert Richard L. Mammalian pheromones, audiomones, visuomones, and snarksRichard Doty argues that they all belong in the same category: objects of imagination.For more than 50 years, researchersincluding many prominent scientistshave identified pheromones as the triggers for a wide range of mammalian behaviors and endocrine responses. Doty rejects this idea and states bluntly that, in contrast to insects, mammals do not have pheromones.Doty systematically debunks the claims and conclusions of studies that purport to reveal the existence of mammalian pheromones. The Great Pheromone Myth directly challenges ideas about the role chemicals
"The Neuroscience of the Olfactory System" according to Ruth Fogg. Summary:The Great Pheromone Myth is written by Richard Doty who is the director of the University of Pennsylvania's Smell and Taste Center in Philadelphia. Doty describes pheromones and specifically their function in mammals as to chemosensation. He describes the extensive amount of research tha. Wonderful Read For Scientist or Layman "The Great Pheromone Myth" is the perfect read for anyone interested in science and biology. Dr. Richard Doty, a world renowned expert in smell and taste, systematically argues that pheromones have long been misunderstood. For the layman, the book is well-written and will be an eye-opening exper. Dreaming the impossible dream: human pheromones Danielle R. Reed Drawing on knowledge acquired over a lifetime, the author concludes that the narrow definition of `pheromone' as a chemical that controls behavior is a word that has no place in the lexicon of mammalian physiology. Scholarly and at times scathing, this is a historical treatise and modern day exe