Out of Africa?

Out of Africa?

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Engen believes that people organize odors according to personal ex- periences. In one set of tests, Engen presented test subjects with 10 different odors, ranging from chemical "odorants" such as amyl acetate (banana oil) to "brand name " stimuh such as Vicks Vaporub. Responses such as "bawipes" for the smell of Johnson's baby powder show that people remember odors by association with similar smells and by "the context or kind of object in which odors may...

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