Women Can Sniff Out Men Without Knowing—And Vice Versa

Rachel Kaufman for National Geographic News
Published May 5, 2011

Women and men can sniff out the opposite sex via odorless pheromones, a new study suggests.

The discovery adds another piece to the growing body of evidence that humans, much like the rest of the animal kingdom, know more from their noses than previously thought.

"We know that for animals, chemosignals are actually the most used signals to communicate, whereas with humans, we think chemosensation is not really used," said study leader Wen Zhou, a psychologist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing.

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