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IN the course of a recent study of the thresholds of taste for phenylthiocarbamide (phenylthiourea) of members of a division of the Malayan Negritos, some extraordinarily high acuities were encountered.
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LUGG, J. Some Notably High Acuities of Taste for Phenylthiocarbamide. Nature 176, 313–314 (1955). https://doi.org/10.1038/176313b0
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