…the singularity that people don’t realize, or most people don’t realize is that we are descendants of fungi. We were born from fungi 650 million years ago, fungi gave birth to animals. And so many of these mushroom species are much older than we are. We were basically little voles at the time that mushrooms had their true forms, many of them and so mycelial networks, multicellular organisms. The first evidence of a multicellular organism has been found in Lava Beds, and it is a mycelium.

~ Paul Stamets

Mushrooms on A Stump, Germany – photo by danil_1972, bigstockphoto.com