Photo of a Guiana squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus), a species whose brain endocast was examined in the current article by Martinez et al. and which, like most primates, has a reduced sense of smell compared to other land vertebrates. (IMAGE)

Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart

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