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No Brain Required: This Is How the Single-Celled “Stentor” Learns

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No Brain Required: This Is How the Single-Celled “Stentor” Learns

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Wudi@feddit.uk to science@lemmy.worldEnglish ·
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A team of researchers discover how the stentor, an organism made of a single, gigantic cell, learns without a brain.
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    5 days ago

    I always wondered what the phrase “Smart as a stentor” meant. I still do.

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      5 days ago

      It means whomever wrote this article.

      It uses molecular machinery like what neurons have in the human brain.

      That is a truly awful sentence.

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