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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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Scientists have known for more than a century that a single-celled organism with no nerve cells—much less a brain—can behave in ways that resemble learning. But those observations only went so far. How the organism did that was a mystery.

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