New Study by ASU Researcher Shows the Number of Smells Humans can Distinguish is Still Unknown (IMAGE)

Arizona State University

New Study by ASU Researcher Shows the Number of Smells Humans can Distinguish is Still Unknown

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Arizona State University researcher Rick Gerkin disagrees with findings made public last year in the journal Science that humans can smell at least 1 trillion odors. In a new paper published in eLife, Gerkin and co-author Jason Castro present several arguments as to why the number of smells humans can distinguish is still unknown.

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