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The History of Pheromones

by batoujitsu

Pheromones are chemicals emitted by living organisms to send
messages to individuals of the same species. The idea that
chemical communication takes place between individuals of the
same species was advanced as early as the late 17th century the
first evidence in support of this was obtained in the 19th
century by the French priest Henri Fabre, whose hobby was raising
butterflies. Fabre demonstrated that antennae are the butterfly's
organ of smell and that males are attracted to females for
reproduction during their flight season. In the 1930s in
Czechoslovakia, females of deciduous fruit pests were used as
bait to trap males in an attempt to monitor the presence of the
pest in the orchard and subsequently devise an appropriate pest
control treatment.

The sex pheromones were first isolated and identified by German
scientists in the year 1959 in silk moth. Although the presence
of these pheromones were identified early 1959 only, it had not
come to the lime light until early 1980's when the media started
poking its nose in the matter.

Technical progress in handling minute quantities of chemicals,
coupled with the development of sophisticated electronics and
computerization, led to rapid progress that enabled the isolation
and characterization of three moth pheromones by 1965, 20
pheromones by 1970, more than 40 pheromones by 1975, and 100
insect pheromones by 1978. Today, more than 1000 pheromones of
various species like insects but also algae, crustaceans,
spiders, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, and mammals are known. But
unfortunately, till date, no pheromones have been found in
birds.

McClintock, Professor in Psychology has provided conclusive
scientific evidence for human pheromones affecting women
menstrual cycles. The data submitted by her about human
pheromones have been accepted by the scientists worldwide and the
theory is well knows as McClintock Effect.

A young lady, Michaela Atzmueller who was born in 1973 studied
zoology and anthropology at the University of Vienna. She did her
MA with thesis on human pheromones and male cooperation in 1988.
In 2001 she did Ph.D. in anthropology at the University of Vienna
with a thesis on risk-taking in young human males and its
manifestation in their nonverbal behavior.

Dr. Winnifred Cutler has also been one among the pioneers in the
ongoing researches in the field of sexual pheromones and human
pheromones. Dr. Cutler's original studies in the '70s showed that
women who have regular sex with men have more regular menstrual
cycles than women who have sporadic sex. Regular sex delayed the
decline of estrogen and made women more fertile. This led the
research team to look for what the man was providing in the
equation. By 1986 they realized it was pheromones. Cutler's
conclusion: "Male essence" contains at least one pheromone that
"helps promote reproductive health".

The department of Molecular Biology and Cell Biology at Harvard
university, many researchers are struggling even today to
translate the secrete language of pheromones.

So now undoubtedly it is proved that the pheromones in human
beings do exist. How best we make use of them is in our hands.

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