Xenopus embryos scale body pattern to available cell number (Cooke 1979, 1981).

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• Developing Xenopus tadpoles can attain normal anatomical outcome despite starting with craniofacial organs scrambled or with wrong number of cells.finding0.764
  Evidence of morphogenetic problem-solving and anatomical homeostasis across serious perturbations; demonstrates collective intelligence in development.
• Xenobots (frog skin cells) exhibit kinematic self-replication when provided with loose cells.finding0.761
  Empirical result from Kriegman et al. 2021: frog cell-derived synthetic organisms replicate without sexual reproduction.
• The number of embryos emerging from an embryonic blastoderm is not genetically fixed but determined in real-time by physiological processes.claim0.759
  Highlights dynamical determination of individuality through collective autopoiesis.
• 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 movingfinding0.759
  Shows stress sharing allows perfect formation of part-by-part target patterns.
• Evolutionary algorithm-designed Xenopus cell clusters exhibit fast self-motile behavior purely from evolved novel shape and tissue distribution, not neural control or genomic information.finding0.756
  Empirical result from Kriegman et al. 2020 demonstrating that 'reprogramming' occurs without altering DNA software
• Morphogenetic remapping across ploidy levels and cell sizesfinding0.756
• Cells in stress-sharing embryo moved average Euclidean distance ~2500 units until gen 400 then ~2400; without-sharing moved ~200 units (30x30 grid)finding0.751
  Quantifies how stress sharing enables long-range cell movements.
• Target morphology shifts occur despite the fact that all of the individual cells have unaltered normal genomes, showing that competent subunits can be pushed to implement diverse organism-scale goals by physiological signals.claim0.749
  Highlights the non-genetic control of large-scale anatomy.