A Fear of Pheromones

In the article "A Fear of Pheromones", it begins off asking questions of why we as humans would even want anything to do with pheromones in the advanced society that we live in. We soon find out that the human being is actually in possession of pheromones and have been for quite some time. Like animals and insects, we are able to use these simple molecules the same way insects use them for communications and other uses. It has been concluded that women who have been living close to each other in the same dorms have their menstrual cycles at about the same time, this is because of a pass of pheromones between the women. Another example would be that fish "make use of chemical signals for the identification of individual members of a species" and because of this fish can tell whether or not they belong in their group of not. I agree with the author about how pheromones might actually do some good to human beings rather than the fear that we live in that we do not need them in our lives like animals and insects.