This caused the organism to turn around, resulting in a behavior where the synapse "remembered" that there had just been a potential mate nearby, causing the organism to remain in its vicinity and hence increasing the probability of encountering the previously sensed mate.
"Beshert, and in Rashi, that's sexy," she recalled him saying, as he deciphered the medieval Rashi typeface for the Yiddish word "beshert," which means "destined" or, in the romantic sense, "soul mate".
In such situations you could opt for "workmate" – though perhaps this assumes a friendship where there is none, or perhaps it may hint at the other sense of "mate", a lover.
Taylor's tenacious grip on the spotlight was partly a matter of sensing which mate at which moment could help her most.
Finally, we used these findings to update our previous model of yeast spatial sensing of mating pheromone, and simulate polarization for a range of surface diffusion coefficients.
If only someone in the bloody government would talk sense like you, mate!
For one, both men and women typically describe kindness as one of the top three characteristics they seek in a mate (sense of humor and intelligence are the other top two picks; gender differences in valuing attractiveness and resources come lower on the list).
When women apes have their wombs removed, and are returned by keepers to the community, their mates sense it, and desert them.
On a recent Friday morning, a young woman with frizzy hair and black wire-rimmed glasses who was riding the No. 2 train uptown smiled when she sensed a seat mate's curiosity about her murder mystery, "Taking the Heat," by Brenda Novak.
