Well, where the hell are they? We're waaaaiiiiting....
I'll second that Littlek! Come on people!!!!!
Most creatures produce pheremones to signal reproductive readiness. Most have ways of smelling those pheremones. We humans don't. New research says that we have the genes, but they're defunct. The culprit may be the development of color vision. Whooda thunkit?
Science Daily
Thus making color blindness a survival trait?
only if the scentsing of pheromones comes with the color blindness.
So I'm not sure ... what color are we supposed to see when there are pheremones present?
Listeningggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg.
Well, shucks, the answer's right there in the article.
Quote:Our closest relatives on the primate family tree rely on "sexual swelling" and gaudy, colorful patches of skin to signal their reproductive fitness and fertility, Zhang said. In fact, though humans and these apes still carry genes that should create pheromone receptors in our noses, these genes have mutated to the point that they are merely pseudogenes---they don't function any more.
So I should stop bottling my sweat and rubbing all over my chestnecknipples area before going on dates?
React to sexual swellings? Okay, I think I get your drift.
'T'ain't my drift, and it's something that humans have lost. So here we are, without pheromones and, at the very least by societal conventions, sans swelling. What a sad state to be in.
It's been proposed, by the way, that the reason for the human males fascination with prominent breasts -- and hence, through sexual selection, of the unnecessarily large breats present on the human female -- harkens back to a more simian fascination with swollen pudenda. Apparently there are striking geometrical similarities between cleavage and estrous babboon butt or something.
And the fact that boobies are cool.
, thought boobies were sexual swellings in this context. My bad.
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Patiodog, where in the world did you find that photo? And what's the male doing, trying to find it? (or am I being naive)?
Maybe he needs a little Viagra?
We are definitely not interested in the apparent similarity between a baboon's butt and your ass, no matter how proud you might be.
