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No one nose

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Lock-in-Keys and Attraction

In humans, we have 400 receptors that can respond to one trillion different molecules. The idea of a lock-in-key model might sound nice, but smell is just a lot more complicated and actually dynamic. Scientists are looking at this whole part of the tango, and they are all undeterred by how bonkers it sounds.

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