Natures wonders: ants farm fungus for food II (Introduction)

by dhw, Wednesday, October 28, 2020, 08:53 (1273 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: More new info:
https://cosmosmagazine.com/nature/animals/how-leaf-cutter-ants-domesticated-crops/?utm_...

QUOTE: "Over tens of millions of years, fungus-farming ants have learned how to cultivate their crops to ensure a stable food supply, seemingly navigating challenges that human farmers still grapple with."

DAVID: Amazing how they seem to learn from experience using their brains.

We are in agreement! For me, ants represent the most vivid example of how a community can use its autonomous collective intelligence to perform the most amazing feats. This is the process I propose for the development of evolution, as individual cells pool their autonomous intelligence to perform the most amazing feats by restructuring themselves in response to the “challenges” which changing conditions create for them.


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