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New perspectives on taste and primate ev

New perspectives on taste and primate evolution: The dichotomy in gustatory coding for perception of beneficent versus noxious substances as supported by correlations among human thresholds

✍ Claude-Marcel Hladik; P. Pasquet; B. Simmen 📂 Article 📅 2002 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 77 KB 👁 1 views

## Abstract In various environments where primates are presently observed, as well as in forests and savannas which have been inhabited by australopithecines and early hominids, there are (or there have been presumably) categories of substances eliciting taste signals associated with stereotyped re