How tiny wasps cope with being smaller than amoebas
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How tiny wasps cope with being smaller than amoebas
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Re: How tiny wasps cope with being smaller than amoebas
#2The wings are amazing. I'd really like to see a video of one of these in flight, although I imagine that would be a difficult thing to capture.
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#3this is rather cool but just to nitpick "one single cell" does not always imply "small" there are a few which are visible to the naked eye (think eggs)
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#4Wow, these little guys are incredible! I had no idea such complexity could evolve at that scale. I think these species deserve a mention in science classrooms.
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As I understood it, both the Paramecium and the amoeba have a single cell. The wasp has many. (I had to reread that a half-dozen times to figure that out...)
Original: "It’s pictured next to a Paramecium and an amoeba at the same scale. Even though both these creatures are made up of a single cell, the wasp..."
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The Paramecium and amoeba, both of which are roughly the same size as the wasp, are single large cells; the wasp is multi-cellular.
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Badly worded paragraph. I re-read it many times before I understood.
The "both" refers to the Paramecium and the amoeba. It's saying that despite having all those other organs (and neurons), the wasp is actually smaller than the single-celled amoeba and paramecium.
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Badly worded paragraph. I re-read it many times before I understood. The "both" refers to the Paramecium and the amoeba. It's saying that despite having all those other organs (and neurons), the wasp is actually smaller than the single-celled amoeba and paramecium. EDIT: Don't delete your comment. You won't be the only one with that question..it'll help others!
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#10What are the major technical barriers before we can identify the input and output channels to this insect's brain and start iterating through all possible input values, recording the corresponding output values? And once we can do that, could we use that data to fly a virtual insect around a virtual world?