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Then, Buck and Axel discovered something truly astounding: fully 3 percent of our entire genome is devoted to genes for detecting different odors. Each of these genes makes a receptor for an odor molecule. For this work, Buck and Axel shared the Nobel Prize in 2004.
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Neil Shubin (Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body)