Human Pheromones: Epigenetic Effects on Hormones and Their Affects on Behavior
Until now, behavioral epigenetics needed to connect all its levels of analysis and provide “… at least one slam-dunk demonstration of all the links in a chain from behavior to neural activity to gene expression and back out again .” When I learned that others thought this demonstration still was needed, I brought my 1992 model current by incorporating the latest perspectives from neuroscience. One month after the 2012 annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, my detailed model now explains how chemical ecology drives adaptive evolution via 1) ecological niche construction, 2) social niche construction, 3) neurogenic niche construction, and 4) socio-cognitive niche construction in accord with my previously published work: see (Kohl, 2012 ).Human Pheromones: Epigenetic Effects of Odors and Their Affects on Behavior and social stress-induced intracellular changes in the homeostatic balance of microRNA(miRNA) and messenger RNA (mRNA);Evolution of the human-specific microRNA miR-941 , an open access article. Published on 23 October 2012, this additional article represents the rapid progress now being made in attempts to link epigenetic effects to genetically predisposed physiology and behavior across species. What is missing, however, as is clearly evident in the text of this recent publication, is evidence for the epigenetic control of speciation. Thus, evidence is missing for the control of the molecular biology of adaptive evolution in humans. invertebrate and vertebrate social and sexual behavior indicate that human pheromones also alter the development of the brain and behavior via the same molecular mechanisms that are responsible for invertebrate foraging and social behaviors exemplified in the honeybee model organism . Obviously, those molecular mechanisms must be conserved across all species for adaptive evolution of the human brain and human behavior to occur (e.g., via properly timed reproductive sexual behavior of mammals).all the links in a chain from behavior to neural activity to gene expression and back out again .
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