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: ~450 Million years ago (+/- 10 million)
About 450 million years ago, fungi and plants have a rich dirt root alliance. Plants gave sugars, fungi gave phosphorus and minerals.
2.
From History: ~1.3 Billion Years Ago (+/- 100 million)
About 1.3 billion years ago, our animal-fungi ancestor stopped using two pulling flagella and narrowed it down to a single motor.
3.
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.
4.
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.
5.
From History: ~950 Million Years Ago (+/- 50 million)
About 950 million years ago, fungi ancestors evolve into multiple early-diverging lineages with flagellated spores: chytrid-like forms.
6.
From History: ~1.75 billion years ago (+/- 50 million)
LECA is the Last Eukaryotic Common Ancestor. LECA reproduced sexually pushing the mixing of DNA back before 1.75 billion years ago.
7.
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.
8.
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.
9.
From History: ~1.9 Billion years ago (+/- 100 million)
About 2 billion years ago, bacteria are added to cells and that group leads to eukaryotes. You are a walking chimera ecosystem made of an Archaea host and trillions of Bacterial power-plants.
10.
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.
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