Simple fungi can recognize shapes, like circles and crosses, when looking for wood to eat
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A fungus has no brain, no eyes, and no nerves. Yet a wood-rotting fungus, given a cross of wood blocks to grow on, attached more of its threads to the outer blocks than to the inner ones. Given a circle to grow on, it showed no such pattern and left the center bare. The researchers […]
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