The same results are interpreted two ways, but there is only one model for food choice and for mate choice. That model is clearly based on ‘olfaction’, even as it is portrayed in bacteria.
1. “Nature” posits that bacteria are sniffing out their food. Bacteria sniff out their food. The simplest form of cellular life can scent nutrients from a distance. Nijland, R. & Burgess, J. G. Biotechnology Journal (2010) Source Nature
2. “The Scientist” posits that bacteria are sniffing out each other. Bacteria sniff each other out. When sensing the presence of other species, bacteria meet the textbook definition for olfaction. Nijland, R. & Burgess, J. G. “Bacterial olfaction,” Biotechnology Journal, 2010. Source: The Scientist
The all-too-common visual approach to human physical attraction is akin to the visual perception of attractive foods being causal to the development of food preferences. I discussed this in my July 2, 2010 presentation to the American Mensa Society, as seen in these two ( of four) 5-minute excerpts from the presentation:
Want more on the same topic?
Swipe/Drag Left and Right To Browse Related Posts:
Impeaching the God of Abraham (8)
4MIN READ
0
Save your children (1)
2MIN READ
0
Relatable not debatable (1)
4MIN READ
0
Abiogenesis vs microRNA biogenesis (3)
3MIN READ
0
The eternal significance of microRNA biogenesis (2)
3MIN READ
0
Darwin Day 2019 (3) #darwinday2019
3MIN READ
0
Autophagy automagically prevents cancer (2)
2MIN READ
0
Part 3: Light-controlled cell biology (revisited)
3MIN READ
0
The tipping point (revisted): 69,000 publications
4MIN READ
0
Energy-dependent base editing and correction of mutations (1)
3MIN READ
0
Light-activated error-free DNA repair (4)
3MIN READ
0
Energy-dependent physical and biophysical constraints (7)
2MIN READ
0
Thinking about energy is not radical re-thinking
6MIN READ
0
Allen Institute confirms food energy is information
6MIN READ
0
Theistic evolutionists fight back and lose (3)
4MIN READ
0
Dobzhansky 1973 and precision medicine (5)
3MIN READ
0
Science journalists or paid propagandists? (4)
6MIN READ
0
Energy-dependent de novo creation and neurogenesis (2)
5MIN READ
0
Survivors of RNA-mediated terrorism
5MIN READ
0
Polycombic ecological adaptation as a science, not a theory (2)
12MIN READ
0
Life is energy-dependent task management
3MIN READ
0
Hypothesis free pseudoscience vs facts (5)
6MIN READ
0
Conserved biophotonic emissions
7MIN READ
2
Biophysically constrained cell type differentiation
3MIN READ
0
The Mind’s Eyes (revisited)
10MIN READ
0
Energy-dependent RNA methylation (6)
9MIN READ
0
Wasted Templeton Funding (2)
2MIN READ
0
Magic, Miracle, or Molecular Mechanism?
10MIN READ
0
Half truths support theories without facts
4MIN READ
0
Nutrient-dependent life vs virus-driven pathology
4MIN READ
0
Soil bacteria, bulls, cows, microRNAs, and mammary glands (2)
3MIN READ
0
Juvenile hormone links atoms to ecosystems
3MIN READ
0
A failed theory of cancer: two more decades of pseudoscience
5MIN READ
0
Genes, orchid odors, and pheromones from blonds
5MIN READ
0
RNA-mediated everything
4MIN READ
0
Gene creation (revisited)
2MIN READ
0
Viruses, amino acids, and somatic cell types (3)
9MIN READ
0
“New” epigenetic mechanism for lifelong learning?
3MIN READ
0
RNA-mediated development (2)
< 1MIN READ
0
Ignoring top-down causation
2MIN READ
0
Scientists lose. A sci-fi author gains credibility
2MIN READ
0
A special issue on nutritional epigenetics
5MIN READ
0
Methylation maintains cell type differences
3MIN READ
0
Quantum correlations/pseudoscience
3MIN READ
0
From Hydra to humans vs a Lakatosian research program
4MIN READ
0
Extensive molecular evidence vs ridiculous theories
2MIN READ
0
Sackler Colloquium: Effects or AFFECTS on Behavior
2MIN READ
0
RNA-mediated species specificity
2MIN READ
0
Ecological adaptations reported as evolution in insects and mammals
4MIN READ
0
Sexual differentiation of cell types in plants
2MIN READ
0
A model of MHC 'evolution'
2MIN READ
0
No understanding of biodiversity
2MIN READ
0
2014 and 2004 Nobel Prize in Medicine
3MIN READ
0
Evolving DNA before RNA
4MIN READ
0
Did our adapted mind evolve? (Revisited)
2MIN READ
0
RNA-directed DNA methylation and RNA-mediated events
5MIN READ
1
Watching and waiting for more retractions
2MIN READ
0
Behavior (3): All responses are RNA-mediated in bees
3MIN READ
0
Behavior (2): All responses are RNA-mediated not genetically-determined
4MIN READ
0
Evolutionary heritage or ecological adaptation? Racism versus reality
4MIN READ
0
Epimutations: Attacking pseudoscientific dogmas
4MIN READ
0
Order and disorder: Ecological adaptations not mutations
6MIN READ
0
Drunks and Monkeys: Pseudoscientific nonsense
2MIN READ
0
Ecologically linked adapted ants and brains
2MIN READ
0
96 fixed amino acid substitutions, not 96 genes
6MIN READ
0
Social experiences epigenetically effect gene networks
2MIN READ
0
Understanding the role of mutations and evolution
4MIN READ
0
Evolution: innovations may have non-adaptive origins (sans mutations)
2MIN READ
0
Pheromones and cancer
4MIN READ
0
Are pheromones responsible for human body odour assessment?
2MIN READ
0
Nutrient-dependent / pheromone-controlled social structure
2MIN READ
0
Random mutations: nothing adaptive in 3 billion years
< 1MIN READ
0
Hormones effect sensitivity to androsterone
2MIN READ
0
Evolved development of olfactory systems
2MIN READ
0
A “new” view of evolution sans mutations
< 1MIN READ
0
Epigenetics and metabolism converge with pheromone production
2MIN READ
0
Epigenetic maintenance of transcription / neuronal migration
2MIN READ
0
Epigenetics and evolutionary success
< 1MIN READ
0
Non-random evolution of a “molecular handshake”
2MIN READ
0
Adaptive evolution: Genetic selection against some disorders
3MIN READ
0
Thinking about what we know (or not)
2MIN READ
0
Increased chemosensory ability and eye regression: a “Just-So” fish story
2MIN READ
0
A mathematical model of phenotypic cause, effects on genes, and affects on behavior
2MIN READ
0
Functional vomeronasal receptor genes in primates?
2MIN READ
0
Non random adaptive evolution
< 1MIN READ
0
Fish Odor Syndrome
< 1MIN READ
0
Is there a model for that?
3MIN READ
0
One of the clearest examples of epigenetic effects
< 1MIN READ
0
Pheromone-induced learning: a NEW model?
2MIN READ
0
Epigenetic effects underlie sexual preferences (duh, and food preferences)
2MIN READ
0
The genetics myth meets the great pheromone myth
2MIN READ
0
The challenges of a Darwinian approach to anything
3MIN READ
0
A key mutational event? More story-telling. Olfaction modulates vision.
4MIN READ
0
A key mutational event? That’s not very likely.
3MIN READ
0
Mutated genes and accidental intelligence?
< 1MIN READ
0
Human Form by Karl Grammer
< 1MIN READ
0
Desmond Morris Syndrome: No selective advantage
2MIN READ
0
Fatal attractions: a fear of pheromones
2MIN READ
0
Olfactory modulation of visual perception
2MIN READ
0
Genetic Influences on Epigenetically Effected Disease
2MIN READ
0
Why we love: Helen Fisher
< 1MIN READ
0
Disorders of development: altered microRNA / messenger RNA balance
< 1MIN READ
0
Eat like a monkey; act like a monkey
2MIN READ
0
Do molecular mechanisms vary across species?
2MIN READ
0
Creation vs Evolution: Expression of a newly found gene
2MIN READ
0
Epistasis: Epigenetic effects of nutrient chemicals and their metabolism to pheromones
< 1MIN READ
0
Sex differences in Alzheimer's and everything else
2MIN READ
0
Sex differences in Alzheimer’s and everything else
2MIN READ
0
Are human pheromones chemosignals?
2MIN READ
0
The Knowing Nose: Chemical Signals Communicate Human Emotions
< 1MIN READ
0
The logic of gene regulatory networks
3MIN READ
0
Creating new genes (and controlling diversity)
2MIN READ
0
How Species Diversify
2MIN READ
0
The same neural mechanisms are at work in worms and humans
2MIN READ
0
Diet epigenetically effects development of the primate brain
< 1MIN READ
0
A “new” form of natural selection?
2MIN READ
0
Human pheromones determine our social behavior (REJECTED)
3MIN READ
0
Pheromonemotionally speaking
2MIN READ
0
Human pheromones and the fusiform fooled you area for face recognition
3MIN READ
0
Chemical conditioning of food reward and drug addiction
< 1MIN READ
0
Embracing galaxy-wide, cellular, and brain complexity
2MIN READ
0
“Just-So” stories vs scientific explanations
2MIN READ
0
Adaptive evolution or not: cone receptors in the eye vs odor receptors
2MIN READ
0
Insect to human cognition
2MIN READ
0
Docosahexaenoic acid vs. creative use of mutations in natural selection
3MIN READ
0
Mischaracterizations of adaptive evolution by psychologists and biologists
2MIN READ
0
Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance of sexual orientation
2MIN READ
0
Unconscious affects on incalculable genomic interactions
3MIN READ
0
Natural selection: New insights are unlikely
< 1MIN READ
0
Natural Selection and the Complexity of the Genome
2MIN READ
0
ENCODE: extant vs extinct species and a clash of world views
4MIN READ
0
Human pheromones: an epigenetic continuum from microbes to mammals
3MIN READ
0
Biological facts constrain proponents of random mutations theory
2MIN READ
0
Pheromones, Reciprocity, and Prosocial Behavior
3MIN READ
0
Is the language of God the god problem? (1530 words)
6MIN READ
0
Envisioning, hindsight bias, plagiarism, or cheating
3MIN READ
0
The Epigenetics of Drug Development and Cholesterol Levels
< 1MIN READ
0
Woefully ignorant politicians and popular science
2MIN READ
0
Human pheromones, nutrition, DNA, epigenetics (2)
2MIN READ
0
Epigenetic effects on the evolution of behavior
2MIN READ
0
Human pheromones and diet-mediated life-extension
< 1MIN READ
0
Copulins: Human pheromones effect physiology and affect social behavior
2MIN READ
0
Human pheromones and the definition of life
2MIN READ
0
Chemical signaling may shed light on how the brain reacts to its environment
2MIN READ
0
The role of food in the evolution of maternal and paternal care in avian species
2MIN READ
0
Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance via nutrient chemicals
1MIN READ
0
Human pheromones and IQ via neurogenic and socio-cognitive niche construction
2MIN READ
0
Human Pheromones: Diversity of signaling pathways and a common response
< 1MIN READ
0
Human pheromones in business strategy
< 1MIN READ
0
Is oxygen required for sensing nutrient chemicals and pheromones?
2MIN READ
0
Human pheromones, social deprivation, and brain growth
< 1MIN READ
0
Flies Evolve to Count (not)
< 1MIN READ
0
Human pheromones and altruism
3MIN READ
0
Human Pheromones and Multi-level selection
< 1MIN READ
0
Nutrient mixture and memory in patients with early Alzheimer’s
< 1MIN READ
0
Human pheromones and inner conflict about evolution (1102 words)
4MIN READ
0
A detailed model of physical reality and natural selection (722 words)
3MIN READ
0
Hacking the Genome
< 1MIN READ
0
Human Pheromones and Comparative Epigenomics
2MIN READ
0
ecological social neurogenic niche
2MIN READ
0
Smelling the difference between young and old
< 1MIN READ
0
Bickering theorists: opinions about selfish genes and group selection
2MIN READ
1
A nutrient chemical and pheromone-dependent neurogenic niche
2MIN READ
0
Passing On Stress
2MIN READ
0
Human pheromone- and nutrient-dependent brain development and behavior
2MIN READ
0
Human pheromones and the visual appeal of other people (Part Three)
2MIN READ
0
Human pheromones and the visual appeal of other people (Part Two)
2MIN READ
0
Human pheromones and the visual appeal of other people (Part one)
2MIN READ
0
Human pheromones and brain development
2MIN READ
0
Pre-existing genetic variability or random mutations: a matter of priorities and choices
2MIN READ
0
Human Pheromones and Common Scents: Plants and Perfume
< 1MIN READ
0
Adam’s rib: Pheromones and the adaptive evolution of human sexuality
2MIN READ
0
Human pheromones and your immune system
< 1MIN READ
0
People select specific fragrances that suit their individual body odor
< 1MIN READ
0
Human Pheromones: extremely technical representation of the concept
2MIN READ
0
Human Pheromones: but No VNO; No Erox; No Human Pheromone Sciences
3MIN READ
0
A fallacious leap? Ancestral and derived traits
3MIN READ
0
Modeling odor processing in microbes, mice, and mankind
2MIN READ
0
Human Pheromones in Socioaffective Neuroscience & Psychology
2MIN READ
0
Love is a receptor-mediated event: the pervasive influence of the late Robert L. Moss
3MIN READ
0
They are what they eat, and so are we
2MIN READ
0
Exercise Alters Epigenetics
2MIN READ
0
History of intelligence (550 words)
2MIN READ
0
How could antibiotics alleviate symptoms of schizophrenia?
2MIN READ
0
Explaining a good theory
< 1MIN READ
0
Effects of pheromones on menstrual synchrony and a gay man
2MIN READ
0
Did viruses make mammals communicate with pheromones?
2MIN READ
0
The cause of colony collapse could be a message for all of us
< 1MIN READ
0
Human Pheromones: 2010 Powerpoint slides and 2011 poster presentation
2MIN READ
0
Is Love in the Air? Human Pheromones and Axillary Chemistry by George Preti
3MIN READ
0
Epigentics and the baby connectome
2MIN READ
0
Cookbook chemistry: food odors and hormones
< 1MIN READ
0
Epigenetics and the connectome
2MIN READ
0
Human pheromones and food odors
< 1MIN READ
0
Another Remembered Present
2MIN READ
0
Pheromones and food odors add more than just color to your world
4MIN READ
0
Misrepresentations of biologically based cause and effect:
3MIN READ
0
Timing is key in the proper wiring of the brain: study
2MIN READ
0
Cause and effect in biology
< 1MIN READ
0
Show me the science!
5MIN READ
0
Ethics, aphrodisiacs, and pheromones
< 1MIN READ
0
Digit ratio does not predict attractiveness of body odor
< 1MIN READ
0
An organizing principle for our sense of smell
< 1MIN READ
0
Epigenetics of food odors, nutrition, and pheromones
< 1MIN READ
0
Pheromones and falling in love (circa 1974)
< 1MIN READ
0
The Demise of Guys
< 1MIN READ
0
Trust the science. Don’t trust the hype
2MIN READ
0
Men and women who stare at goats…
2MIN READ
0
The Sex Lives of Insects: Part III
3MIN READ
0
The Sex Lives of Insects (Part II)
3MIN READ
0
The Sex Lives of Insects
< 1MIN READ
0
Pheromones and detectable odors
2MIN READ
0
The “yuck” factor: aversion to social odors?
2MIN READ
0
Avian ‘Axe effect’ attracts attention of females and males
2MIN READ
0
Study results: Human pheromones affect women’s behavior
< 1MIN READ
0
Scents of Adolescence: Are you blind?
< 1MIN READ
0
Human Pheromones and the Biology of Behavior
5MIN READ
0
Human pheromones: social odors and food odors
< 1MIN READ
0
Honeybees, food odors, and perfume
< 1MIN READ
0
Pheromones and a realistic model of sexual differentiation
3MIN READ
0
Sniffing out your nightlife / Pheromone-infused nightclubs
< 1MIN READ
0
Erox rises from the ashes
< 1MIN READ
0
Avian recognition of human faces
< 1MIN READ
0
Human Pheromones Affect Women's Behavior
2MIN READ
0
A lesser role for olfaction and pheromones in humans?
1MIN READ
0
Creating a Myth
< 1MIN READ
0
Dogs and humans: Then and now
< 1MIN READ
0
Excellent new book about pheromones
< 1MIN READ
0
Human Pheromones and The Philosophy of Science
2MIN READ
0
Natural scent of women linked to increased testosterone and seduction
< 1MIN READ
0
Too many good-smelling males is not good
< 1MIN READ
0
Human pheromones in tears automagically effect testosterone
2MIN READ
0
Exotic Pheromones and Concentrates
2MIN READ
0
Dialogue on pheromones: Avery Gilbert / James V. Kohl
2MIN READ
0
Mammalian pheromones are not a myth
3MIN READ
0
Study Results: Human pheromones increase flirtatious behavior and ratings of attraction
2MIN READ
0
Results: increased flirtatious behavior and self-reported attraction
2MIN READ
0
Conditioned sexual arousal to odor
2MIN READ
0
Food preferences and mate preferences
< 1MIN READ
0
American and Canadian Mensa Presentation
< 1MIN READ
0
Sold on the human VNO?
< 1MIN READ
0
The Great Pheromone Myth (opinion/review)
19MIN READ
0
Welcome to Pheromones.com
< 1MIN READ
0
An attempt to change the concept
< 1MIN READ
0
Scent of a woman: Men’s Testosterone Responses to Women's Scent
< 1MIN READ
0
Earlier evidence: pheromones influence testosterone in men