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Digestion is external for mushrooms, and it evolved to be in animals' internal organs. The signals that mushrooms send to each other through their mycelium net
by di456 4y ago
Digestion is external for mushrooms, and it evolved to be in animals' internal organs.
The signals that mushrooms send to each other through their mycelium network have the same physical and chemical mechanisms as the brain and neurological networks.
(Mushroom is a small part of the overall organism, it's just the fruiting body)
- TheSpiceIsLife 4y agoTechnically, the inside of the mammalian digestive system is outside of the body.
- di456 4y agoInteresting, could you elaborate? Is it because the digestive tract is isolated from the rest of the body? Almost like the body was built up around it?
- TheSpiceIsLife 4y agoIn the sense that the inside of the digestive system is contiguous with the skin. You can trace a path from, say, the back of your knee, through the intestines, and out to your eye lid, as you can trace a path from any point on a the outside of a torus. We're just a very complicated doughnut. It's something a medical scientist type I studied under was fond of saying, and I find it a useful model
- di456 4y agoThat is wild to think about, thanks for explaining!