https://www.quantamagazine.org/before-brains-mechanics-may-have-ruled-animal-behavior-20220316/ had to pop up a few times before I paid attention. *Tricoplax adhaerens* is a multicellular organism which coordinates multicellular motility through mechanical interactions between cilia.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.02930 Excitable mechanics embodied in a walking cilium https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.02934 Ciliary flocking and emergent instabilities enable collective agility in a non-neuromuscular animal https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.02940 Mobile defects born from an energy cascade shape the locomotive behavior of a headless animal I especially like the picture of Prakash wading in the tide pool to collect specimens. -- rec --
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