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... taste , for example . Does a fly possess a sense of taste ? Is it similar to ours ? How sensitive is it ? What does he prefer ? The first fruitful experimental approach to this problem began less than fifty years ago with a very shrewd ...
... taste , for example . Does a fly possess a sense of taste ? Is it similar to ours ? How sensitive is it ? What does he prefer ? The first fruitful experimental approach to this problem began less than fifty years ago with a very shrewd ...
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... sense of taste . For example , who has the more acute sense of taste , you or the fly ? As the cookbooks say , take ten saucers . Fill the first with water and stir in one teaspoon of sugar . Now pour half the contents of the saucer ...
... sense of taste . For example , who has the more acute sense of taste , you or the fly ? As the cookbooks say , take ten saucers . Fill the first with water and stir in one teaspoon of sugar . Now pour half the contents of the saucer ...
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... sense of taste . For example , by testing more and more dilute sugar solutions against water we found a concentra- tion of sugar below which the fly could not discriminate be- tween water and sugar . By testing more and more concen ...
... sense of taste . For example , by testing more and more dilute sugar solutions against water we found a concentra- tion of sugar below which the fly could not discriminate be- tween water and sugar . By testing more and more concen ...
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