St Aldate's
Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 1BU
UK
When?
Wednesday, May 4 2016 at 7:30PM
Where?
St. Aldates Tavern
108 St Aldate’s
City Centre
Oxford
OX1 1BU
Who?
Tristram Wyatt
What’s the talk about?
A corporation interested in patenting ‘human pheromones’ for profit created a long lasting myth that has roped in many scientists as well as the general public. Tristram Wyatt will describe what went wrong and what would be needed to establish that we do have pheromones (chemical signals within a species). One of the most promising leads is communication between mothers and babies, not sex. The talk will be for non-scientists and scientists alike.
Tristram is a founding fellow of Kellogg College and a senior researcher at the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford. The second edition of his single-author book Pheromones and Animal Behavior (Cambridge University Press) won the Royal Society of Biology’s prize for the Best Postgraduate Textbook in 2014. He is currently writing a Very Short Introduction to Animal Behaviour for OUP. His TEDx talk on human pheromones has had 1 million views.
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