Evolution coevolution of the ant and fungi

[spotlightman1234]

1:25 Fuckin smart.

[AserHapi]

Quck question: Why did they decide to go to a giant ant mound in a remote corner of the Brazilian Amazon AT FUCKING NIGHT!!!?

[cchanderson]

@AserHapi Brazil is destroying the forest on a scale nearly unimaginable. They were probably twenty feet from the Holiday Inn parking lot.

[sine0]

It seems to me that in nature, life and evoloution is linked in with a subtle intelligence that causes these positive outcomes. I would like to see examples of these 'first instances'. How did one ant just turn round and say, ok we eat this mould now or we do it like this instead.

[hartejoseph]

ants in my pants

[schaitproblema]

@hartejoseph :D random shit

[TheUnion5]

Humans too have a history of mushroom use, perhaps this is why the world is in the state that it's in - we've lost touch with our beloved symbiot.

[tastyscavenger]

@TheUnion5 we never did loose touch, we still use them for antibiotics, food, and even dying fibers. the example you are hinting towards is just for either a serotonin buzz, or inhibiting neurons. neither of which would benefit the world directly.

[theoneswifty]

@TheUnion5 do you even know what your saying?



[alcibiade666]

Fascinating

[MattChez]

very interesting :)

[minasoliman]

this is just one of many examples of how something that might appear so insignificant for human purposes actually become important to understand that could help humanity battle disease

[vwr0527]

Once they become interdependent, it's like they become one organism. The fungi are the ant's digestive system.

[proudfootz]

Lynn Margoulis has argued that such fusion is the real engine of variety upon which natural selection acts.

[PARDONEMUA]

Well you Know in the BIBLE it Says..Go to the Ant thou Sluggard.

[turnerj41]

Ants are awesome

[Terrencje]

Another fact of life, fun to know :)