Excerpt: “The study, to be published in the October issue of Animal Behaviour, also found that bird odor was a more reliable predictor of reproductive success than a male’s size or his plumage.”
My comment: After two different presentations of my initial representation (in the early to mid- 1990s) of a model of how olfactory/pheromonal stimuli epigenetically alter mammalian gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) and behavior, Jay R. Feierman MD, Ph.D asked “What about birds?” Feierman is the current moderator of the International Society for Human Ethology yahoo group, and still cannot seem to get past the obvious fact that the molecular mechanisms of nutrient-dependent / pheromone-controlled adaptive evolution are conserved across all species.
Instead, until two days ago, he consistently touted the manufactured phrase that: “Random mutations are the substrate on which directional natural selection acts.” He has since changed to “…mutations are A substrate on which natural selection acts”.
On June 14, 2013, I published Nutrient–dependent / pheromone–controlled adaptive evolution: a model — in Socioaffective Neuroscience & Psychology. https://dx.doi.org/10.3402/snp….
Feierman continues to ignore the examples that clearly show how “Olfaction and odor receptors provide a clear evolutionary trail that can be followed from unicellular organisms to insects to humans.” It would be interesting to ask him and other theorists “What about birds?” after they learn that this article about birds sniffing out mates is published. It would also be interesting to learn of evidence in any species that suggests adaptive evolution is not nutrient-dependent and pheromone-controlled.
James Vaughn Kohl was the first to accurately conceptualize human pheromones, and began presenting his findings to the scientific community in 1992. He continues to present to, and publish for, diverse scientific and lay audiences, while constantly monitoring the scientific presses for new information that is relevant to the development of his initial and ongoing conceptualization of human pheromones.
Recently, Kohl integrated scientific evidence that pinpoints the evolved neurophysiological mechanism that links olfactory/pheromonal input to genes in hormone-secreting cells of tissue in a specific area of the brain that is primarily involved in the sensory integration of olfactory and visual input, and in the development of human sexual preferences. His award-winning 2007 article/book chapter on multisensory integration: The Mind’s Eyes: Human pheromones, neuroscience, and male sexual preferences followed an award winning 2001 publication: Human pheromones: integrating neuroendocrinology and ethology, which was coauthored by disinguished researchers from Vienna. Rarely do researchers win awards in multiple disciplines, but Kohl’s 2001 award was for neuroscience, and his 2007 “Reiss Theory” award was for social science.
Kohl has worked as a medical laboratory scientist since 1974, and he has devoted more than twenty-five years to researching the relationship between the sense of smell and the development of human sexual preferences. Unlike many researchers who work with non-human subjects, medical laboratory scientists use the latest technology from many scientific disciplines to perform a variety of specialized diagnostic medical testing on people.
James V. Kohl is certified with:
* American Society for Clinical Pathology
* American Medical Technologists
James V. Kohl is a member of:
* Society for Neuroscience
* Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology
* Association for Chemoreception Sciences
* Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality
* International Society for Human Ethology
* American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science
* Mensa, the international high IQ society
