The Scented Ape

The Biology and Culture of Human Odour

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Paperback | 28 January 1991

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Both men and women devote time and effort to removing natural body odour and replacing it with sexual attractant odours derived from plants and animals - we seem to need to smell of something other than people! Yet of all the apes, we are the most richly endowed with scent producing glands. This book examines the sense of smell in humans, comparing it with the known functions of the same sense in other animals. Odorous cues play a role in sexual physiology and behaviour in animals and there are claims that odour can play the same role in humans. The place of odours and scents in aesthetics and in psychoanalysis serves to illustrate the link between the emotional centres and the brain. The book presents arguments to explain the way in which our ancestral past has given rise to our modern day olfactory enigmas. The material is presented with as much explanation of the technical detail as possible to make the book accessible to a wide readership.

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Preface
Acknowledgements
The Human Nose - A Zoological Conundrum?
Chemoreception and the Origin of Sexual Reproduction
Chemical communication and the hypophysis
Neural connections between nose and brain
The Scented Ape
The sebaceous glands
The apocrine glands
Axillary odours
Saliva and urine
Circumanal organ
Hair Meibomian, ceruminous and vestibulum masi glands
Human body odours
The Naso-Genital Relationship
Vaginal secretions
The ovarian cycle
The human menstrual cycle
Olfaction in sexual development
Scent and the Psyche
Evidence from philosophy, psychoanalysis, aesthetics and folklore
Evidence from experimental studies
Perfume
Ancient perfumes and their uses
Modern perfumes and their uses
Why do humans wear perfumes?
Incense
Ancient uses of incense
Ingredients of incense
The odours of incense
Support from animal studies
The Noselessness of Man
Ecology of parental investment
Bipedalism, hunting and human evolution Gregariousness, oestrus advertisement and the pair bond
Human concealed ovulation and olfactory desensitisation
Epigamic selection and male external genitalia
Axillary scent organs as secondary sexual characters
Conclusion
The Human Nose and the Monkey's Tail
Glossary of technical terms
Bibliography
Index
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