10 Fantastic Fungi Superpowers (video)

Host Hank Green (SciShow, 5/15/16); Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

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10 Fantastic Fungi Superpowers

Mycology is the study of mushrooms. And there is much to study. This is the least known field of biology, an entire collection of organisms closer to us than creatures we resemble. Yet, we know next to nothing about fungi, mycelia, and the fruiting bodies we call shrooms. It's as if the "gods" (space devas) dropped DNA powder upon the earth, like semen on a fallow field, earth's biome, that gave rise to these strange life forms that then got into our human (Homo sapien sapien) genome. Support SciShow by becoming a patron on patreon.com/scishow.

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