Astonishing: trees communicate, coordinate action, and share material resources via a fungal network. http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/2015/05/09/dying-trees-can-send-food-to-neighbors-of-different-species/ … via @Jayarava
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@jamesmcn That’s a big part of current evolutionary theory! - 5 more replies
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@Meaningness I got a really cranky email from a friend at 4:00 this morning about that article, not exactly sure what the beef is - -
@Meaningness "urging us to empathize with trees as social animals" by coming to the exact opposite conclusion about self-interested fungi? - 3 more replies
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Seems inevitable that sociopathic trees would evolve to draw more sugar from the mycorrhizal net than they are due, and need to be cut off.
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