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Published online 8 October 2008 | Nature 455, 714-715 (2008) | doi:10.1038/455714b
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Slime moulds exhibit the kind of "contemplative behaviour" that Hamlet is famous for, muses Toshiyuki Nakagaki of Hokkaido University in Japan. "Hamlet couldn't decide what to do so he did nothing.
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