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Touch has always been an integral sense for the human, as well as other animals. For us, it is an intimate sense, often strictly forbidden to strangers and individuals who are not close friends or relatives. It is also essential to a species so reliant on tool use for survival. From early flint knapping to using our cell phones for destination mapping, it would be hard to imagine Homo sapiens getting anywhere without a sensitive touch or two.
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Parrish, A.C. (2021). Tactile Persuasion (Haptics). In: The Sensory Modes of Animal Rhetorics. Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76712-9_6
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