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    11 months ago

    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.