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My favorite tapeworm-related fact is from Entangled Life [1]: If you cut off a tapeworm's head, it loses its main ganglia [~brain]; but when the head/ganglia g
by ProllyInfamous 3y ago
My favorite tapeworm-related fact is from Entangled Life [1]:
If you cut off a tapeworm's head, it loses its main ganglia [~brain]; but when the head/ganglia grow back, the tapeworm will still have environmental memories (e.g. how to solve a maze it had mastered, pre-decapitation).
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Entangled-Life-Worlds-Change-Futures/dp/052551032X https://www.amazon.com/Entangled-Life-Worlds-Change-Futures/...