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Making sense of our evolution

  • Written by: The Conversation
imageHuman eyes are unique among primates for their range of iris colours and unpigmented sclera.Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

The science about our our special senses - vision, smell, hearing and taste - offers fascinating and unique perspectives on our evolution.

Yet it remains patchy; we know surprisingly little for example about how our sense of...

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