Wisdom Builder
Quick Hits
Topic:
Fungi
Timeless ideas at the intersections of science, philosophy, critical thinking, and history.
MODE:
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4 minutes
Fungi.
Quick Hits
10 random key ideas.
1.
From History: ~425 Million years ago (+/- 25 million)
About 425 million years ago, modern fungi morphology emerges. Modern fungi are built on one ancient division.
2.
From History: ~1.2 Billion Years Ago (+/- 300 million)
Before animals evolved circulatory and digestive systems, cells first evolved internal flow to move materials around inside themselves.
3.
From History: ~20 Million Years Ago (+/- 10 million)
Black mold is part of the normal fungal world: usually a moisture-driven irritant and allergy problem, sometimes a more serious respiratory issue for sensitive or vulnerable people.
4.
From History: 66.04 million years ago to the present.
The Cenozoic era starts with the K–Pg extinction 66 million years ago. That event marks the sudden end of the reign of dinosaurs and the rise of mammals and birds.
5.
From History: ~600 Million years ago (+/- 20 million)
About 600 million years ago, chytrids live in moist and watery environments. They are living fossils in the sense they reproduce with sperm-like cells that can swim to a new area.
6.
From History: 251,902,000 years ago (+/- 900 years).
The Permian-Triassic extinction was not just the end of many species. It was a planetary reset that destroyed the old synapsid-dominated world and opened the door for the archosaur line that would later give rise to dinosaurs.
7.
From History: 3.73 Billion Years Ago (after LUCA)
Prokaryotes are nucleus-free cells that include both bacteria and archaea — the two lineages that split shortly after LUCA.
8.
From History: ~252 MYA (Permian–Triassic boundary)
At 252 million years ago, the greatest extinction ends the world as known, fungi begin again.
9.
From History: ~201 Million Years Ago
The Triassic–Jurassic extinction cleared ecological space for dinosaurs to become the dominant land animals of the Jurassic.
10.
From History: ~444 Million Years Ago
The Ordovician–Silurian extinction shows how climate change can reshape evolution by collapsing old ecosystems and opening space for new life.
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