The Hidden Power of Smell How Chemicals Influence Our Lives and Beha
This book provides insight into an area that humans often take for granted. There are wonderful and exciting stories of organisms using chemical signals as a basis of a sophisticated communication system. In many instances, chemical signals can provi
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The Hidden Power of Smell How Chemicals Influence Our Lives and Behavior
The Hidden Power of Smell
Paul A. Moore
The Hidden Power of Smell How Chemicals Influence Our Lives and Behavior
Paul A. Moore Laboratory for Sensory Ecology Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, OH, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-15650-7 ISBN 978-3-319-15651-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-15651-4
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To Jen for showing me love, To Meghan for showing me empathy, To Connor for showing me humor, and To Nobody, because even Nobodies are somebodies.
Preface
This book provides a mere glimpse into the world that has dominated my career for more than three decades. In studying the minds of animals and attempting to elucidate the role that chemical signals play in decision making, one gets quite close to the subject matter and the organisms involved. At times, this myopic view of nature and its organisms hinders the ability of someone to see the bigger picture of how everything fits together into a coherent picture. Given the structure of science today and the need to become an expert in one area, we are forced to focus and specialize. Writing this book has forced me to read outside of my focal point (aquatic chemical ecology) and engage my mind with researchers and animals far afield from my crayfish. In doing this mental expansion, I found myself amazed and excited about all of the ways that evolutionary processes have developed adaptations that involve the use of the chemical world. Plants that communicate fear signals and animals that cross-dress using special perfumes are just a couple of other worldly adaptations that are often overlooked. I hope that this renewed ex
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