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Key ideas from the book
- The book explores the five human senses: smell, taste, hearing, touch, and sight.
- It explains physical processes underlying human perception and sensation.
- It considers how sensory experience relates to human behavior and social customs.
- Scientific information is combined with lore, history, and descriptive writing.
- The work connects psychology and natural history with a literary appreciation of everyday experience.
About A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman
Published in 1990, A Natural History of the Senses examines how human beings smell, taste, hear, touch, and see. Diane Ackerman connects the physical processes of perception with human behavior, social customs, and the ways people experience the world.
Scientific fact is placed alongside lore, history, and vivid description, creating a work that sits between psychology, natural history, and literary science writing. Its focus on sense organs, sensation, and perception makes it a strong choice for readers interested in the science of experience and the relationship between the senses and behavior.
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