Mammalian embryos overcome drastic perturbations such as amputation, and early embryo splitting results in normal monozygotic twins.

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• Temporary introduction of breaks in the embryonic blastoderm results in twins, triplets, etc. (Lutz 1949)finding0.798
  Demonstrates that the blastoderm is a dynamical excitable medium where multiple coherent embryos can self-organize, not fixed by genetics.
• Stress-sharing embryos achieve perfect sequential target patterns; non-sharing limited to <1% improvement.finding0.791
  Stress-sharing embryos formed each sequential target with stress reducing to zero; non-sharing achieved only tiny improvements.
• Developing Xenopus tadpoles can attain normal anatomical outcome despite starting with craniofacial organs scrambled or with wrong number of cells.finding0.788
  Evidence of morphogenetic problem-solving and anatomical homeostasis across serious perturbations; demonstrates collective intelligence in development.
• In stress-sharing embryo, average stress reduced to zero at step 40 during sequential target morphogenesis; without-sharing stress settled at non-zero with <55 cells movingfinding0.779
  Shows stress sharing allows perfect formation of part-by-part target patterns.
• Waves of ATP mediate morphogenetic information sharing and teratogen resistance among groups of embryos.finding0.771
  Tung et al. 2024 finding on cross-embryo morphogenetic assistance (CEMA).
• Sharing of stress between cells facilitates morphogenesis and increases robustness of morphogenetic outcomes.hypothesis0.761
  Prior hypothesis tested in the paper; from Levin 2022.
• Ectopic eyes formed in frog embryo tails still function; eye primordia cells succeed in forming an eye, optic nerve, and correct neural connections despite abnormal spatial context.finding0.758
• Tadpoles with scrambled craniofacial organ positions (Picasso tadpoles) develop into largely normal frogs.finding0.756
  When eyes, nostrils, and jaws were mispositioned, they moved via novel trajectories and stopped upon reaching correct frog face positions, demonstrating anatomical homeostasis.