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Poultry meat and eggs are important sources of high-quality animal protein worldwide. However, poultry in Japan has historically been regarded as a symbolic or spiritual entity more than as a food source, as its roles are deeply embedded in Japanese consciousness and society. Current evidence indicates that chickens first appeared in Japan during the Yayoi period, approximately 2,000 years ago, coinciding with a period of active human migration to the Japanese archipelago. Since then, poultry has played notable roles in Japanese art, literature, mythology, and folktales. Recent advancements in molecular clock analysis or the detection of genomic modifications, such as introgression, deletions, mutations, and viral infection from trace fossil/live samples necessitate the continual revision and refinement of existing theories about human and animal history across several academic disciplines. Therefore, the objective of the present review was to elucidate the distinct and multilayered relationship between humans and poultry in Japan, incorporating recent anthropological and ornithological perspectives.
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This paper, the second in a series, reports on a study designed to assess how physicians operate selective mechanisms to sort out relevant and/or reliable information from what is presented to them. Twenty-four professors of internal medicine from two leading medical schools in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, answered open-ended interviews. The conceptual framework adopted is based on Ludwik Fleck's work (on thought style). The thought style that emerged from this set of interviews can be briefly characterized as a largely intuitive, pragmatic, results-oriented search for relevant (i.e., potentially useful in practice) information, selected from sources with sufficient academic credibility and submitted to a primacy of practical knowledge. However, despite this skepticism, doctors lack resources (i.e. time, as well as knowledge of technical aspects of research, particularly in terms of epidemiology and statistics) to effectively assess the knowledge that is constantly being force-fed to them.