Does the paper really say that humans may be as capable as dogs?
That doesn’t sound right.
That doesn’t sound right.
Dogs seem to be great at detecting odors in low concentrations. Once they are detectable by humans, however, it seems we have some pretty good olfactory skills.
The unstated bit of this is that humans are probably less good at scent differentiation, which is another factor in olfactory "capability," but not strictly the same as the ability to track a scent (though you could argue that if you're more likely to follow a subtly wrong scent, you're less capable -- something not captured by the studies which have looked at this, I don't think).