The Scented Ape: The Biology and Culture of Human Odour

by David Michael Stoddart

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521395615
• ISBN13: 9780521395618
• Release Date: November 1990
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"