Although the view that women's olfactory abilities outperform men's is taken for granted,
some studies involving large samples suggested that male and female olfactory abilities are …

Extremely high variability in genes of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) in
vertebrates is assumed to be a consequence of frequency-dependent parasite-driven …

Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

The sense of smell essentially contributes to social communication, guides nutrition
behaviour and elicits avoidance towards environmental hazards. Olfactory smell impairment …

The impact of the olfactory sense is regularly apparent across development. The fetus is
bathed in amniotic fluid (AF) that conveys the mother's chemical ecology. Transnatal …

Emotion and odor scales (EOS) measuring odor-related affective feelings were recently
developed for three different countries (Switzerland, United Kingdom, and Singapore). The …

This article is part of a Special Issue “Chemosignals and Reproduction” Across phyla,
chemosensory communication is crucial for mediating a variety of social behaviors, which …

Previous studies in animals and humans show that genes in the major histocompatibility
complex (MHC) influence individual odours and that females often prefer odour of MHC …

Recent studies have noted positive effects of red clothing on success in competitive sports,
perhaps arising from an evolutionary predisposition to associate the color red with …

Although anthropologists frequently report the centrality of odours in the daily lives and
cultural beliefs of many small-scale communities, Western scholars have historically …