Wonderful overview! Fungi are creepy as hell, like a whole parallel world we don't know about, but works strangely similarly to ours in the macro sense, but entirely differently in the micro sense.
Why do no animals use photosynthesis or plants walk around?
I guess it's just not adaptive to try a little bit of both so organisms can never get there via gradient descent. But it seems useful to have a passive energy source on your head.
As an aside, are you related to Alex Tabarrock, of GMU? If so, I think we played Diplomacy together once.
Wonderful overview! Fungi are creepy as hell, like a whole parallel world we don't know about, but works strangely similarly to ours in the macro sense, but entirely differently in the micro sense.
Why do no animals use photosynthesis or plants walk around?
I guess it's just not adaptive to try a little bit of both so organisms can never get there via gradient descent. But it seems useful to have a passive energy source on your head.