• similarly to other sensory systems, olfaction has undergone fairly modest changes throughout the evolution of vertebrates. Phylogenetic analyses reveal...
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    The sense of smell, or olfaction, is the special sense through which smells (or odors) are perceived. The sense of smell has many functions, including...
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    olfactory system, is the sensory system used for the sense of smell (olfaction). Olfaction is one of the special senses directly associated with specific organs...
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    1101/022103. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help) Wikimedia Commons has media related to Olfactory receptor neurons. Insect olfaction...
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    Canidae (redirect from Evolution of canids)
    Michigan. Retrieved 13 June 2014. Doty, Richard (2 December 2012). Mammalian Olfaction, Reproductive Processes, and Behavior. Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-323-15450-5...
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    timeline of human evolution outlines the major events in the evolutionary lineage of the modern human species, Homo sapiens, throughout the history of life...
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    which were detected by olfaction in the nose. Such signals could be used in navigation. The rigid shell of turtles is not capable of expanding and making...
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    Witmer, Lawrence M. (13 April 2011). "Evolution of olfaction in non-avian theropod dinosaurs and birds". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences...
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    (December 2007). "The Role of Behavior in the Evolution of Spiders, Silks, and Webs" (PDF). Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics. 38: 819–846...
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    Lizards make use of their senses of sight, touch, olfaction and hearing like other vertebrates. The balance of these varies with the habitat of different species;...
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    doesn't adequately reconstitute the complex nature of olfaction...". In response, the authors of the second study state "Embryonic kidney cells are not...
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  • of the species as a whole, but this would require a process of group selection which is believed to be mathematically impossible in the evolution of sexually...
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    Hesperornis (category Late Cretaceous birds of North America)
    Witmer, Lawrence M. (13 April 2011). "Evolution of olfaction in non-avian theropod dinosaurs and birds". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences...
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  • The evolution of nervous systems dates back to the first development of nervous systems in animals (or metazoans). Neurons developed as specialized electrical...
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    been largely associated with olfaction. Many studies later culminating in work by Papez, and MacLean, the involvement of other interacting brain regions...
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    The evolution of tetrapods began about 400 million years ago in the Devonian Period with the earliest tetrapods evolved from lobe-finned fishes. Tetrapods...
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    intense. With their acute sense of smell, bears can locate carcasses from several kilometres away. They use olfaction to locate other foods, encounter...
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    only olfactory receptor that is responsible for trimethylamine olfaction in humans. As of December 2015,[update] hTAAR5-mediated trimethylamine aversion...
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    PMID 23073637. S2CID 17489247. Potier, Simon (2020). "Olfaction in raptors". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 189 (3): 713–721. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz121...
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    in a loss of olfaction (the sense of smell). Speech and language are mainly attributed to parts of the cerebral cortex. Motor portions of language are...
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  • recognition of the mother by her offspring. Throughout evolutionary history, olfaction has served various purposes related to the survival of the species...
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    (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii) and their bearing on the evolution of dental enameloid in Neoselachii". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 32 (2): 255–266. Bibcode:2012JVPal...
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    bulbus olfactorius) is a neural structure of the vertebrate forebrain involved in olfaction, the sense of smell. It sends olfactory information to be...
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    variety of functions including emotion, behavior, long-term memory, and olfaction. The limbic system is involved in lower order emotional processing of input...
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    understanding of mammalian evolution and the evolution of strepsirrhine traits, such as their reliance on smell (olfaction), characteristics of their skeletal...
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  • Neurogastronomy (category Olfaction)
    making. Areas of interest include how olfaction contributes to flavor, food addiction and obesity, taste preferences, and the linguistics of communicating...
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    Johnjoe McFadden (category Academics of the University of Surrey)
    recent findings in photosynthesis, enzyme catalysis, avian navigation, olfaction, mutation and neurobiology. The book received positive reviews, for example:...
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    Olfactic communication (category Olfaction)
    become a platform of nonverbal communication. Smell also has a significant influence on social interactions. Through their branch of olfaction research, the...
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    Olfactory trigone (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918))
    small triangular area in front of the anterior perforated substance. Its apex, directed forward, occupies the posterior part of the olfactory sulcus, and is...
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    only olfactory receptor that is responsible for trimethylamine olfaction in humans. As of December 2015,[update] hTAAR5-mediated trimethylamine aversion...
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