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From the archive: how we lost our sensory connection with food – and how to restore it

The Audio Long Read

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Human Thumbs as Tools for Sensing Ripeness

Bee Wilson explains how opposable thumbs evolved to judge fruit ripeness and notes we no longer use touch to choose ripe produce.

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