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It’s not gods, scientists said Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and it’s not dragons or bugs.
It’s the plants themselves. They’ve self-organized.
This is not an entirely new theory. South African biologist Michael Cramer suggested it in a paper in 2013, and a year later the lead author of the PNAS study, Stephan Getzin, conducted his own analysis of aerial images of the Namibian circles to develop a computer model that could explain how plants — which lack central nervous systems, and, you know, an understanding of the notion “circle” — could coordinate themselves in this way.
It’s not gods, scientists said Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and it’s not dragons or bugs.
It’s the plants themselves. They’ve self-organized.
This is not an entirely new theory. South African biologist Michael Cramer suggested it in a paper in 2013, and a year later the lead author of the PNAS study, Stephan Getzin, conducted his own analysis of aerial images of the Namibian circles to develop a computer model that could explain how plants — which lack central nervous systems, and, you know, an understanding of the notion “circle” — could coordinate themselves in this way.
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