Conclusion
As you can see, pheromones are a much bigger part of our lives than most people think. The term pheromones can actually include any form of chemical communication between organisms. There has been significant increases in the knowledge humans have about pheromones in the past several decades, but there is still plenty of information we do not know about them. For example, we might know the chemical structure of human pheromones, but we have yet to determine whether or not the VNO plays a role in their function or if the VNO is even functional.
The study of insect pheromones has set the foundation for the study of pheromones as a whole and in recent years we have been taking it a step further, to the human pheromone level. As always, technology has allowed us to do more and more experiments and aquire more and more knowledge about pheromones. Some of the results of recent studies are astonishing, just take a look at the article by Dr. Gallup that will be released in June 2002. If the rapid increases in experimentation and knowledge continue, soon we might be able to control other people's actions, just like we control insects, by simply spraying a chemcial.
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