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  2. Plant memory - Wikipedia

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    Mark Jaffe recognized that pea plants coil around objects that act as support to help them grow. Jaffe’s experiments included testing different stimuli to induce coiling behavior. [1] One such stimulus was the effect of light on the coiling mechanism. When Jaffe rubbed the tendrils in light, he witnessed the expected coiling response.

  3. Development of the nervous system - Wikipedia

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    If parameter k is decreased one-by-one from k=n through k=1 then more and more edges appear in the graph, since the inclusion condition is relaxed. The surprising observation is that the appearance of the edges is far from random: it resembles a growing, complex structure, like a tree or a shrub (visualized on the animation on the left).

  4. Plant intelligence - Wikipedia

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    Using a neurological metaphor, he described the sensitivity of plant roots in proposing that the tip of roots acts like the brain of some lower animals. This involves reacting to sensation in order to determine their next movement. [18] [19] Darwin's "root-brain hypothesis" influenced those in the field of plant neurobiology many years later. [19]

  5. Evolution of the brain - Wikipedia

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    The evolutionary history of the human brain shows primarily a gradually bigger brain relative to body size during the evolutionary path from early primates to hominins and finally to Homo sapiens. This trend that has led to the present day human brain size indicates that there has been a 2-3 factor increase in size over the past 3 million years ...

  6. Savannah hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    The savannah hypothesis (or savanna hypothesis) is a hypothesis that human bipedalism evolved as a direct result of human ancestors' transition from an arboreal lifestyle to one on the savannas. According to the hypothesis, hominins left the woodlands that had previously been their natural habitat millions of years ago and adapted to their new ...

  7. Evolution of nervous systems - Wikipedia

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    Typically, each body segment has one ganglion on each side, though some ganglia are fused to form the brain and other large ganglia. The head segment contains the brain, also known as the supraesophageal ganglion. In the insect nervous system, the brain is anatomically divided into the protocerebrum, deutocerebrum, and tritocerebrum.

  8. Green tea drinkers have fewer brain lesions linked to dementia

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    One cup of tea was equivalent to approximately 200 ml. They also underwent magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans to assess cerebral white matter lesions, hippocampal volume, and total brain volume.

  9. Plant perception (physiology) - Wikipedia

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    Plant perception is the ability of plants to sense and respond to the environment by adjusting their morphology and physiology. [1] Botanical research has revealed that plants are capable of reacting to a broad range of stimuli, including chemicals, gravity, light, moisture, infections, temperature, oxygen and carbon dioxide concentrations, parasite infestation, disease, physical disruption ...