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Diane Ackerman

“Smell was our first sense, and it was so successful that in time the small lump of olfactory tissue atop the nerve cord grew into a brain. Our cerebral hemispheres were originally buds from our olfactory stalks. We think because we smelled.”

Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses
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A Natural History of the Senses A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman
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