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heydo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Fun fact, humans share more DNA with fungi than they do with plants. We share nearly 50% of our DNA with fungi.

Plus mushrooms are the sex organs of the mycelium organism. Just an extra fun fact for free there.

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MadBigote@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
So, OP eats mushroom dick. Got it.

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- heydo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  There are theories that hypothesize that mycelium came to earth via asteroids from space.
  
  So it may be more apt to say that OP eats space dick instead.
  
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FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
It’s my understanding that fungi came around rather late in the game. Long after animals and plants both.

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- Revan343@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  The earliest fungi evolved approximately 1.5 billion years ago, while green algae, the earliest plant, only evolved ~1 billion years ago. Animalia is significantly newer.
  
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