Pheromones and Romance

ee each other for the first time at a part and instantly fall in love so deeply that they are willing to give up everything: their lives, their families, their honor, just to be with one another. How can a person have such strong emotions after only knowing a person for a few seconds? That is an easy answer. Pheromones. These mystery chemicals cause animals, as well as people, to be attracted to members of the opposite sex, or in some cases the same sex, that emit the pheromone that perfectly matches their receptor.
             If you are an animal, there are few things as valuable as a good nose. In a world without speech, it is often scent alone that tells you if a stranger is in the mood to mate or in distress, is preparing to attack or about to retreat in fear. The chemicals that carry these odorless messages are called pheromones, and while most animals produce them, the highest animals--humans--were thought to be above such crude olfactory signals.
             Pheromones are natural chemical signals that the body produces in order to attract others. Pheromones are well documented in the animal kingdom as the force that controls all social behavior, especially
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