Re: psychoceramics: Pheromone sprays (was: phrenology)

[nmcnelly @ bu.edu (N.A.F. McNelly)]

At 2:27 AM 10/7/97, Andrew C. Bulhak wrote:

>I read in New Scientist (or perhaps Scientific American) that
>scientists have found that humans have a vomeronasal organ, a
>tiny pit in the bridge of the nose containing a receptor.
>Apparently a lot of people who have plastic surgery end up
>losing this organ.
>
>If anything, it may be that this organ is vestigial.

You're right - I should have qualified that - some humans
have tiny remnants of a vomernasal organ, but no accessory
olfactory bulb for it to send messages to.  A sort of
appendix-in-the-nose.

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Nancy McNelly                  "Bastante aproximado pero casi parece
http://www.halfmoon.org             que lo hubiera escrito Tarzan"
Dept. of Anatomy & Neurobiology
Boston University School of Medicine