kay@lemmings.world to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 months agoCapitalists and social darwinists literally shaking and crying rn rulelemmings.worldimagemessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
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minus-squarehuginn@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·9 months agoDon’t ascribe motivations to biological processes. That fungus wouldn’t eat the tree because it doesn’t eat the tree. There are tree eating fungi but that is not one of them. That fungus is proof of cooperation being mutually beneficial and evidence of how “altruism” works out in favor of the cooperators.
minus-squareZoboomafoo@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-29 months ago There are tree eating fungi but that is not one of them. Based on what? According to my quick research, symbiotic fungus doesn’t fruit unless the tree is in trouble. That tree seems fine, so then the fungus probably isn’t good for the tree
minus-squareSwallowtail@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·9 months agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycorrhiza I don’t think that’s true.
Don’t ascribe motivations to biological processes.
That fungus wouldn’t eat the tree because it doesn’t eat the tree. There are tree eating fungi but that is not one of them.
That fungus is proof of cooperation being mutually beneficial and evidence of how “altruism” works out in favor of the cooperators.
Based on what?
According to my quick research, symbiotic fungus doesn’t fruit unless the tree is in trouble. That tree seems fine, so then the fungus probably isn’t good for the tree
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycorrhiza
I don’t think that’s true.
I think you’re right