Word: kravitzes
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Unless their genes were switched, males would not normally head-butt in battle, and females would not lunge, said Berry Professor of Neurobiology Edward A. Kravitz, a co-author of the study...
...We’re trying to learn how a gene specifies all that complicated stuff that animals know how to do,” Kravitz said. “There’s so little known about how complex behaviors”—like aggression—“get wired into the nervous system...
Humans do not have a gene analogous to “fruitless,” Kravitz said, and the genetic behavioral patterns seen in the fruit flies cannot be extrapolated to humans...
...Kravitz published another study on fruit fly behavior earlier this month, which pitted male flies against each other in fights. The study, which appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that fruit flies can remember the outcomes of previous battles and that those memories influence their fighting mentality...
...Manhattan's trendy Soho district, rock star Lenny Kravitz peers down from an 18-m-wide billboard for Absolut vodka, holding in his outstretched arms what appears to be a digital cable with bottle-shaped plugs. This isn't just the physical manifestation of the vodkamaker's latest hip ad campaign; it's also a display of advanced technology. At the bottom of the sign, Absolut invites passersby to send a text message or enable their Bluetooth cell phones to download a free 4-min. MP3 track where they're standing. "We always try to be edgy and different with...