Carcass of Beef by French artist Chaim Soutine, c. 1925. Even in this stylized version, images of dead animals can elicit disgust. The prototypical odor of disgust is one of decay. Source: Wikimedia ...

In part 1 of this series on disgust, I explored the cultural evolution of the disgust response from a mechanism to protect the body from pathogens, to a way by which society created rules for moral ...