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Are humans constantly but subconsciously smelling themselves?

All primates, including humans, engage in self-face-touching at very high frequency. The functional purpose or antecedents of this behaviour remain unclear. In this hybrid review, we put forth the hypothesis that self-face-touching subserves self-smelling. We first review data implying that humans t...

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Autores principales: Perl, Ofer, Mishor, Eva, Ravia, Aharon, Ravreby, Inbal, Sobel, Noam
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7209943/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32306875
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0372