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Living being representing the most evolved species on Earth, characterized especially by upright
stance, spoken language and a large brain.

SENSE ORGANS
Portions of the body enabling information from the outside world to be received through specific
receptors that are connected to the brain by the nerves.

touch
Sense enabling the skin to detect sensations (contact, heat, pain and others) due to specialized
receptors spread widely over the surface of the body.

skin finger hand

hearing
Sense that perceives sounds and maintains balance; the human ear is capable of distinguishing
almost 400,000 sounds.

pinna structure of the ear auditory ossicles

smell and taste


Since the oral and nasal cavities are connected, the olfactory sense affects taste. The human
being can distinguish four basic flavors and almost 10,000 odors.
mouth nasal fossae external nose

dorsum of tongue taste receptors

sight
The human being possesses a highly developed visual sensitivity, far superior to that of the other
senses.

eye eyeball photoreceptors

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