Neither plant nor animal, but essential to both.
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FUNGI EVOLUTION
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~1.75 billion years ago (+/- 50 million)
LECA: Likely Sexual Reproduction
Last Eukaryote Common Ancestor
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By 1.75 billion years ago, sexual reproduction emerged. Two single cells meet, merge, and then begin one of nature’s wildest tricks: building a body by dividing, specializing, and cooperating. First one cell becomes two, then four, then eight, then a little ball, then layers, tissues, organs, nerves, memory, emotion, and eventually a being that can look up and wonder where it came from.
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Fungal Great Split: Ascomycota & Basidiomycota
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07 Jul 2026
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Opisthokonts: True Posterior Flagellum
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Fungal Underground Alliance
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Fungi Evolution
Neither plant nor animal, but essential to both.
The hidden kingdom beneath our feet.
Fungi evolution tells the story of one of life’s most overlooked success stories. Fungi helped break down dead matter, recycle nutrients, and form deep partnerships with plants that helped reshape life on land. Neither plant nor animal, fungi followed their own remarkable path, quietly supporting ecosystems for hundreds of millions of years. Understanding fungi evolution reveals that some of nature’s greatest powers work mostly out of sight.
