A second grader wanted to know if his pet caterpillar would remember him. His experiment shocked scientists
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Jo Nagai, a second grader in Kobe, Japan, replicated a landmark 2008 moth memory study with butterflies and discovered that caterpillars retain memories through metamorphosis and appear to pass memories to offspring—findings that surprised his academic collaborator Dr. Martha Weiss.
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