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Common Senses

  By Richard Saltus
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Twenty-five years ago, the physician and writer Lewis Thomas predicted that the progress of biological research would be measured by how long it took to gain a complete understanding of odor.

"It may not seem a profound enough problem to dominate all the life sciences," he observed, "but it contains, piece by piece, all the mysteries."

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