Chickens prefer beautiful humans

Chickens prefer beautiful humans.

We trained chickens to react to an average human female face but not to an average male face (or vice versa). In a subsequent test, the animals showed preferences for faces consistent with human sexual preferences (obtained from university students). This suggests that human preferences arise from general properties of nervous systems, rather than from face-specific adaptations. We discuss this...

Humans prefer curved visual objects.

People constantly make snap judgments about objects encountered in the environment. Such rapid judgments must be based on the physical properties of the targets, but the nature of these properties is yet unknown. We hypothesized that sharp transitions in contour might convey a sense of threat, and therefore trigger a negative bias. Our results were consistent with this hypothesis. The type of c...

Pathogenesis of glomerulonephritis: from chickens to humans.

asleep, but I think he explained that by saying his senior resident (myself) harassed him all night and did not let him get much sleep! And the father of us all is sitting up there: Ed Lewis, of course, hasn’t changed at all either. That was the origin of the group of three in which Kline and I began our subsequent careers in glomerular disease. We all began the trip that brings us together her...

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Submitted for the MAR06 Meeting of The American Physical Society Sorting Category: 07.8.3 (E) Detachment and re-attachment of vertically aligned single-walled carbon nanotube films YOICHI MURAKAMI, SHIGEO MARUYAMA, The University of Tokyo — A hot-water assisted detachment method of CVD-grown vertically aligned single-walled carbon nanotube (VA-SWNT) films from substrates has been developed. In ...

Does Nature Prefer Heterocycles?