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Sense of sight is the most important for humans, right? Your hierarchy of senses is not objective

Humans have many senses – it’s a myth that there are only 5. However, there are 5 senses that traditionally are considered to be the most important – sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell. Interestingly, most of us actually consider their importance in this exact order, but is it a universal concept? Scientists from the University of York say that it is definitely not.

Traditionally we tend to think that the sight is the most important sense for us – it gives us the biggest amount of information. However, scientists argue that that this idea is not universal across all cultures. In other words, while biological and evolutionary factors definitely are important, scientists think…

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