The smell of age: perception and discrimination of body odors of different ages.

Our natural body odor goes through several stages of age-dependent changes in chemical composition as we grow older. Similar changes have been reported for several animal species and are thought to facilitate age discrimination of an individual based on body odors, alone. We sought to determine whet...

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Main Authors: Susanna Mitro, Amy R Gordon, Mats J Olsson, Johan N Lundström
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3364187?pdf=render