Even with no brain, slime molds quickly learn bitter lessons
Wednesday, April 27, 2016 - 05:20
in Paleontology & Archaeology
You don’t need a brain to learn something new – not if you’re a slime mold, anyway. Scientists who watched Physarum polycephalum search for food found that the slime mold could learn to ignore certain chemical threats. The findings, described in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, contradict...