Humans have a Nose for Gender.

According to researchers who report their findings in the Cell Press "Current Biology," the human body produces chemical cues that communicates genders to members of the opposite sex. Whiffs of the active steroid ingredients androstadienone, which in males and estratetraenol, which is in females, influences our perceptions on movement as being either more masculine or more feminine. this affect, which occurs completely without awareness, depends on both our biological sex and our sexual orientations. Wen Zhou of the Chinese Academy of Science states that, "our finding argue the existence of human sex pheromones, they show that the nose can sniff out gender from our body secretions even when we dont think we smell anything on the conscious level." researchers also found that homosexual males respond to gender pheromones more likely than heterosexual females, but bisexual or homosexual females responded the same as in heterosexual males and females. gender cues were very extreme and ambigous, smelling the hormones produced. this article is interesting and good to know fro scientific study. It shows how many other types of research is being produce for the human curiosity.




Original article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/05/140501123449.html
secondary article: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/ist/?next=/science-nature/human-nose-can-distinguish-between-one-trillion-different-smells-180950175/