Olfactory
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In fact, more of our DNA is devoted to genes for different
olfactory
receptors than for any other type of protein.
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And I can with all honesty look her in the eye and say, "Because our pheromones matched our
olfactory
receptors."
By seven months of gestation, the fetus' taste buds are fully developed, and its
olfactory
receptors, which allow it to smell, are functioning.
But then, in the 1990s, studies starting showing, following the lead of Elizabeth Gould at Princeton and others, studies started showing the evidence of neurogenesis, the birth of new brain cells in the adult mammalian brain, first in the
olfactory
bulb, which is responsible for our sense of smell, then in the hippocampus involving short-term memory, and finally in the amygdala itself.
And if you're wondering, somebody actually did the experiment where they cut off the
olfactory
sense of the squirrels, and they could still find their nuts.
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