This Myth Smells Fishy (IMAGE)

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This Myth Smells Fishy

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A GIF depicts this author's hypothesis that humans don't have inferior smell compared to other mammals, but rather, are just sensitive to different scents. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the May 12, 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by J.P. McGann at Rutgers University in Piscataway, NJ, and colleagues was titled, "Poor human olfaction is a 19th-century myth."

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