13. Animal fight patterns
When a hawk
approaches its prey, its sharpest view is at an angle to their
direction of flight — an angle that's the same as the spiral's pitch.
14. The uterus
According
to Jasper Veguts, a gynaecologist at the University Hospital Leuven in
Belgium, doctors can tell whether a uterus looks normal and healthy
based on its relative dimensions — dimensions that approximate the golden ratio. From the Guardian:
Over the last few months he has measured the uteruses of 5,000 women using ultrasound and drawn up a table of the average ratio of a uterus's length to its width for different age bands.The data shows that this ratio is about 2 at birth and then it steadily decreases through a woman's life to 1.46 when she is in old age.Dr Verguts was thrilled to discover that when women are at their most fertile, between the ages of 16 and 20, the ratio of length to width of a uterus is 1.6 – a very good approximation to the golden ratio."This is the first time anyone has looked at this, so I am pleased it turned out so nicely," he said.
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