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New Books in Science, Technology, and Society

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Are Fungi Alive?

Fungus are more closely related to animals than they are to plants. It's possible that the food buried with the pharaoh for safter life, to feed him on in the after life journey could have been spores from three thousand year old fungus. Funguses aren't plants, technically, no, they're not. And yet, they, they're very hard to classify.

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