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Letter: Scent to perdition

Published 23 September 2000

From Barbara Wilkie

So humans may be able to pick up pheromone signals after all
(2 September, p 7).
But how in the world do pheromones stand a chance of working when they have
to compete with industry’s petrochemical-synthesised scents?

wilworks@lanminds.com

Issue no. 2257 published 23 September 2000

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