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Smarter than dirt.

Publication: American Scholar
Publication Date: 22-MAR-09
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Smarter than dirt.(Works in Progress)(behavior of slime molds )(Brief article)

Article Excerpt
You can't outfox natural selection for billions of years without some rudimentary smarts. Now scientists in Europe and Japan are showing that primordial slime molds are clever enough to reveal how animal cells glom together to form intelligent creatures.

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In slime molds, individual amoeba cells stitch themselves...

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