Odor signatures and kin recognition

@article{Porter1985OdorSA,
  title={Odor signatures and kin recognition},
  author={Richard H. Porter and Jennifer M. Cernoch and Rene D. Balogh},
  journal={Physiology \& Behavior},
  year={1985},
  volume={34},
  pages={445-448}
}
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Olfaction and human kin recognition
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Close biological relatives share somewhat similar odor signatures (presumably resulting from genetically mediated similarities in bodily biochemistry and metabolism) that could facilitate kin recognition.
The neuronal substrates of human olfactory based kin recognition
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The neural substrates of human kin recognition are mapped by acquiring measures of regional cerebral blood flow from women smelling the body odors of either their sister or their same‐sex friend, demonstrating that humans have an odor based kin detection system akin to what has been shown for other mammals.
Possible olfaction-based mechanisms in human kin recognition and inbreeding avoidance.
Rats assess degree of relatedness from human odors
Partner’s body odor vs. relatives’ body odor: a comparison of female associations
: People positively appraise odors of individuals who are genetically different from themselves. Here we analyzed the relationship between perceived similarity of body odor to the judges’ relatives…
Human Body Odour Individuality
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It seems that despite the stability of olfactory cues, the hedonic quality of body odour may vary over time.
Discrimination Between Individual Body Odors Is Unaffected by Perfume
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It is found that there are no differences in conditioning success between perfumed and unperfumed body odors, suggesting that perfume does not mask individual differences and that olfactory stimuli may modify social perception in other modalities.
Body odor similarity in noncohabiting twins.
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It is shown that odors of identical twins (but not dizygotic twins) can be matched by human sniffers at rates better than chance, even when the twins are living apart, indicating an important genetic influence on body odor and the potential for developing technologies for human odor printing in relation to underlying genotype.
Entangled chemosensory emotion and identity: Familiarity enhances detection of chemosensorily encoded emotion
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It is demonstrated that familiarity subconsciously sharpens one's sensitivity to chemosensory emotional cues, which increases as a function of the time couples have spent together, and provides insights into the mechanisms and interplays of chemOSensory emotion and identity processings.
Do Trained Dogs Discriminate Individual Body Odors of Women Better than Those of Men? *
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It was found that dogs trained for the study identified individual women’s hand odors more accurately than those of men, and it was hypothesized that this is either because of differences in chemical compounds making discrimination of women�'s odors easier, or because of greater “odor attractiveness” of women's scents to dogs.
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