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Your Inner Fish : Making Scents

Your Inner Fish : Making Scents. Yaakov Malomet. Perception of Smell. Picture taken from: Neil Shubin’s Your Inner Fish , page 142. Perception of Smell. Brain’s single response to many signals sent by nerve cells interacting with molecules floating in the air

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Your Inner Fish : Making Scents

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  1. Your Inner Fish: Making Scents Yaakov Malomet

  2. Perception of Smell Picture taken from: Neil Shubin’s Your Inner Fish, page 142

  3. Perception of Smell • Brain’s single response to many signals sent by nerve cells interacting with molecules floating in the air • Can sense 5-10,000 different odors Picture: http://mattovermatter.com/2011/02/the-science-of-smell/

  4. Jawless Fish vs. Mammals: Odor Genes • Mammals = highly specialized animals, use sense of smell more • Jawless Fish = Primitive, underwater Picture: https://www.cdli.ca/courses/biol2201/unit02_org02_ilo05/b_activity.html

  5. Citations: • Shubin, Neil. "Making Scents." Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into The 3.5-Billion-Year History Of The Human Body. New York: Pantheon, 2008. 139-47. Print. • Shubin, Neil. "Your Inner Fish: Teaching Tools." Tiktaalik Roseae: Home. University of Chicago, 2006-2009. Web. 06 Sept. 2011. <http://tiktaalik.uchicago.edu/book-tools.html>.

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