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#2 Ants revolutionized twice; a/ 60 million years ago, ants in South America started collecting fungi. b/ Ants became dependent on one single cultivar of fungi, & domesticated it, forever changing both ants & the fungi: cc.@Ericka14957869, via @TA
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So the other interesting finding was that ants developed agriculture shortly after the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event 65 Million years ago. https://t.co/vCHRb2iCtG
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@KKSakimoto @bikobiolabs https://t.co/mBoUQbhzAw This paper presented the most straightforward evidence I came across for the co-evolution of the ants and fungi, and the fungi-farming ants' divergence from the other ants. Notably, the ants that only ate mu