Biology
Study suggests single-celled organisms can learn without a brain
A growing body of peer-reviewed research is building the case that single-celled organisms, creatures with no brain, no neurons, and no nervous system at all, can exhibit habituation, one of the simplest and most fundamental forms of learning. The findings cut against a long-standing assumption in biology: that learning requires dedicated neural hardware. Instead, the […]
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