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Sensing smell and mutant ants Ants have evolved approximately 400 smell receptors—a number closer to humans than most other insects—thanks to their use of pheromone communication. "Ants ...

In the nasal cavity they bind with odor receptors—and it’s those receptors, of which humans have somewhere between 350 and 400 types, that are the main source of what we perceive as flavor.

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We each have more than 400 types of olfactory receptors. This specificity helps explain why odors can trigger such precise ...