IFLScience We Have Questions: Do Humans Have Pheromones?

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IFLScience We Have Questions: Do Humans Have Pheromones?

IFLScience We Have Questions: Do Humans Have Pheromones?

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Episode 12 of We Have Questions playing on a smartphone, in the background is an image of a man wincing at the smell of his armpit and on the opposite side is an image of a woman sniffing the air

Episode 12 of We Have Questions.

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Humans smell, there’s no denying it, but are some of those smells sending out chemical signals we aren’t consciously aware of? Are we, like ants, giving off pheromones

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We spoke to Dr Tristram Wyatt, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Biology at the University of Oxford, to find out.

You can listen to this episode and subscribe to the podcast on all your favorite podcast apps: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Podbean, Amazon Music, and more.

This interview first appeared in Issue 31 of our digital magazine CURIOUS.


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