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Sniff sniff: Smelling led to smarter mammals, researchers say
May 19, 2011 by NewsBot
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet; the saying is perhaps a testament to the acute sense of smell that is unique to mammals. Paleontologists have now discovered that an improved sense of smell jumpstarted brain evolution in the ancestral cousins of present-day mammals.
