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Humans have a limited pheromone vocabulary. Compared to more articulate members of the animal community, we are deficient in our ability to communicate eloquently with each other by our body secretions. For example, a dog has 20 times as many nasal receptor cells as a human and much larger olfactory bulbs in the brain.
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Maxwell, K. (1994). Primate Perfume. In: The Sex Imperative. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-5988-1_13
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