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Unraveling Ciliate Learning: Insights from Forgotten Experiments

This chapter delves into experiments on ciliates that aimed to condition them to associate a clean wire with food, highlighting parallels to Pavlov's work with dogs. The findings, though initially met with skepticism, prompt a reevaluation of the intelligence of single-celled organisms in the scientific world.

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