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The surprising intelligence of brainless organisms

Ellsworth Toohey
Feb 27, 2025
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Jungle serpent strangling animal, by J.W. Hart, (1870) public domain

"Nonhuman intelligence has been the subject of a long-running and contentious war in science whose sides have periodically skirmished over the past 150 years," writes Sally Adee in Noēma. "It was Charles Darwin who first popularized in the West the abilities in plants that in any human …

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