According to the National Institutes of Health, olfaction is possibly the oldest sense.

Evidence exists of a rudimentary sense of smell in prokaryotes, single-celled organisms that lived in the Archaean seas 2-3 billion years ago. The scent of nutrients aided the cells’ survival.

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