• InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    An educational program uses facts to describe reality. Right-wingers lose their shit. It's clockwork. No wonder they hate education. The program should make an episode about fungi.

    Scientists discover why fungi have 36,000 sexes

    IF HUMANS were mushrooms, finding a date would be much easier. Whereas we muddle by with just two sexes, the fungi have 36,000, all of which can mate with each other, in a mysterious process involving underground fronds.

    • NedLudd [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Definitionally, what even is sex in this context? A broad reproductive pattern?

      • fox [comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        You know how you can only successfully reproduce if a male gamete meets a female gamete? Fungi say "Nah" and have many, many different kinds of gamete that are all mutually reciprocal to each other. So instead of male /female you have A/B/C/D/E... and can reproduce by pairing AB, AC, AD, AE, BA, BC, DE, EB, and so on

        • Dryad [she/her]
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          1 year ago

          :shroomjak: one more reason to take the shroompill

    • eatmyass
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      edit-2
      1 year ago

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    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Hey handsome. Want to engage in a mysterious process involving underground fronds?