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 Can sense 5-10,000 different odors Picture: http://mattovermatter.com/2011/02/the-science-of-smell/

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

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>.