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I've long had this crackpot theory that mycorrhizal networks are to plants what skin and digestive microbiome are to humans
by lagniappe 3y ago
I've long had this crackpot theory that mycorrhizal networks are to plants what skin and digestive microbiome are to humans
- culi 3y agoNot that crackpot imo. The essential difference between animals and fungi is that at some point one group decided to digest things internally with a stomach (animals) and another group decided to digest things externally with enzymes (fungi). This external relationship to nutrients might make fungi as an organism simply more modular and able to make more interesting symbiotic relationships. Acting not just as partners but organs of a larger body