A single-celled slime mold known as the blob demonstrates problem-solving, memory, and efficiency without a brain, mirroring human-designed transit systems.

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Slime molds, which live in soil, are truly ancient animals. They arrived on land close to a billion years ago and may well have colonized continents that were then home only to films of bacteria.