Human pheromones from the bottom-up and top-down
“…the early ethologists who could see only the behavior of birds and somehow know that olfaction was not involved.”
“…the early ethologists who could see only the behavior of birds and somehow know that olfaction was not involved.”
The honeybee model organism suggests that cognition is not required. This raises the question of whether or not we could train honeybees to not exhibit behaviors that we think are altruistic.
This is but one of many studies that link the epigenetic effects of nutrient chemicals and pheromones to adaptive evolution via classically conditioned behaviors directly linked from olfactory/pheromonal input to brain development and plasticity altered by stress.