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Summary
| Description |
English:
Slime mold solves maze. The mold (yellow) explored and filled the maze (left). When the researchers placed sugar (red) at 2 separate points, the mold concentrated most of its mass there and left only the most efficient connection between the two points.
Ref:
Nakagaki, T., Yamada H. and Tóth, Á. (September 2000). "
Intelligence: Maze-solving by an amoeboid organism
".
Nature
407
(6803): 470.
DOI
:
10.1038/35035159
.
PMID
11028990
. Retrieved on
2008-09-03
.
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| Date | 3 September 2008 (original upload date) |
| Source | Own work ( Original text: I created this work entirely by myself. ) |
| Author | Philcha ( talk ) |
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