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I absolutely love this stuff, please post more.

Did you happen to catch the PBR doc on slime mold? One of the most elemental life forms, an extended single cell organism, it can track down and extend itself to a food source even around maze-like obstacles. And if the food source is deliberately hidden behind an obstacle with some deterrent (which was previously experienced) on one side, the stuff apparently has what amounts to memory, allowing it to purposely avoid the deterrent and go around the harmless side the next time.

The show alluded to other examples of organisms without a brain or central nervous system...@prlyles comes to mind...who are able to accomplish things that scientists long considered to require a central nervous system.

Evolution is an easily understandable and believable theory, and seeing the steps of the billions of years old puzzle put together bit by bit is engrossing to me; I can't get enough.

Imagine, @prlyles and a slime mold are not-so-distant cousins.
 
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