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The Hidden Power of Smell: How Chemicals Influence Our Lives and Behavior
Paul A. Moore
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Description for The Hidden Power of Smell: How Chemicals Influence Our Lives and Behavior
Hardback. Num Pages: 213 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, 27 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PDZ; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 167 x 246 x 18. Weight in Grams: 576.
The main purpose of the book is to provide 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 provide more detailed and accurate information than any other mode of communication, yet this world is hidden from us because of our focus on visual and auditory signals. Although we have a diversity of senses available to us, humans are primarily auditory and visual animals. These stimuli are sent to the more cognitive areas of ... Read more
The main purpose of the book is to provide 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 provide more detailed and accurate information than any other mode of communication, yet this world is hidden from us because of our focus on visual and auditory signals. Although we have a diversity of senses available to us, humans are primarily auditory and visual animals. These stimuli are sent to the more cognitive areas of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Condition
New
Number of Pages
213
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319156507
SKU
V9783319156507
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Ref
99-2
About Paul A. Moore
Paul A. Moore is a member of the Department of Biological Sciences at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. The Moore Laboratory for Sensory Ecology studies the role that chemical signals play in an organism's ecological role.
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