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All animals exhibit innate behaviors in response to specific sensory stimuli that are likely to result from the activation of developmentally programmed circuits.

~ Richard Axel

Animals Behaviors Exhibit Innate Likely Programmed Response Result Sensory Specific Stimuli

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In humans, smell is often viewed as an aesthetic sense, as a sense capable of eliciting enduring thoughts and memories. Smell, however, is the primal sense. It is the sense that affords most organisms the ability to detect food, predators, and mates.

~ Richard Axel

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The identification of a population of olfactory sensory neurons innervating a single glomerulus that mediates robust avoidance to a naturally occurring odorant provides insight in the neural circuitry that underlies this innate behavior.

~ Richard Axel

Avoidance Behavior Identification Innate Insight Naturally Neurons Population Provides Robust Sensory Single

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There are many ways for organisms to probe the external world. Some smell it, others listen to it, many see it. Each species, therefore, lives in its own unique sensory world of which other species may be partially or totally unaware.

~ Richard Axel

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