Over 19,000 years ago, ancient humans began harvesting a strange, fleshy organism that was neither plant nor animal, initiating one of the most complex food relationships in human history.
In this Video, You’ll learn:
– Genetics & Classification: Why mushrooms are evolutionarily closer to humans and animals than to the plants on your plate.
– Ancient Evidence: How 5,300-year-old Ötzi the Iceman used fungi for fire and medicine, and how Ice Age foragers consumed wild species.
– Deadly History & Royalty: The terrifying cellular biology of the death cap mushroom (Amanita phalloides) and how it changed Roman imperial politics.
– The Origins of Farming: How Song Dynasty Chinese farmers first mastered shiitake log cultivation a thousand years ago, long before French gardeners grew mushrooms in underground Paris tunnels.
– Modern Fungi Revolution: How white button, cremini, and portobello mushrooms are actually all the same organism (Agaricus bisporus), and how fungi shape ecological networks.
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47 Comments
straight slop this was a stolen video
Sounds cool
Someone tell the vegans, they can't eat fungus either lol.
Nature is really fascinating ….what can unalive you can still give your body the very thing it needs to strive ✅
Mushroom good for health 😅❤🎉
1:04 WAIT! Whose putting lettuce on their pizza?
🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤
I didn't think mushrooms had been discovered as far back as ancient times. It's quite surprising.
Does this mean mushrooms aren’t vegan?😂
The fact that mushrooms are closer to us than plants is still so weird 😂 Humans have been eating fungi for thousands of years and somehow we’re still figuring them out
Uh. Who puts lettuce on pizza?
24:39 Prototaxites may represent an entirely extinct fourth or separate kingdom of eukaryotic life, distinct from plants, animals, and fungi
fungi are fun guys lol
The fact that fungi are actually closer to animals than plants is wild. It’s crazy how something we casually put on pizza has such a strange history behind it.
Actually, Amanita Phalloides and related poisonous mushrooms share one property which is easy to spot: white gills. So if there is one rule to remember when foraging mushrooms in Europe or Northern America, it's this: avoid mushrooms with white gills.
4:00 10,000 GRAMS??
What fascinates me most is how early humans built reliable knowledge around something this risky. Two mushrooms can look similar, yet one can feed you and another can make you seriously ill. I wonder how much of that knowledge came from trial and error, observing animals, and especially being passed down from one generation to the next.
From ancient Ice Age medicine to underground Paris farming—this was such a fascinating deep dive!
It is Ötzi….Not Otzi.
cool, what is it color in sky?
What is the name of this voiceover
Hey, they also watched animals. Deer and squirrels are known to eat them.🎉
The fact that fungi are actually closer to animals than plants is wild. It’s crazy how something we casually put on pizza has such a strange history behind it.
What amazed me most is that the mushroom we eat is only the fruiting body the real organism can be an enormous hidden network underground. It makes fungi feel like an entire invisible world beneath our feet.
Lorem ipsum he he!
Wow ❤
cool, what is it color in your life
The survivors taught the one to come later. That’s how we discovered what was safe, poison, or got you high.
10000 Grams … lolz
How is one part, the rather interesting question is how the hell they started with getting high on it
Most interesting useless video I've seen in ages.
Old news. Nothing stands out. Boring.
The mushroom-as-apple / mycelium-as-invisible-tree analogy was such a good visual. It reframes ancient foraging completely — they weren't gathering a plant, they were picking fruit from an organism they couldn't even see. 19,000 years of eating these and we're still discovering what they actually are.
very good!
Fungi really said 'binary is overrated' and went with 23,000 options instead
This planet belongs to the fungi.
They just let us live here because they like to eat us.
Sometimes, they don't wait until we are dead.
They watched what animals ate. That’s true for everything.
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Thank you for sharing knowledge that can genuinely benefit so many people. Fantastic work!
Mushrooms somehow get stranger the more you learn about them 😂 They’re closer to animals than plants, can feed you, poison you, help start fires, and build underground ecological networks. The fact that button, cremini, and portobello are all the same species blew my mind. 🍄
Mushrooms are so interesting
heian era
I am Latvian. In our culture, picking wild mushrooms, eating them fresh, and preserving them for the cold season is very common. It was a favorite hobby of mine during my teenage years—the forest, nature, and the thrill of hunting for mushroom fruiting bodies—a passion that might seem unusual to Westerners. But if in doubt, it is better to leave them for the forest wildlife. Animals, for instance, even eat poisonous mushrooms in small quantities to get rid of parasites. There is a little Latvian rhyme—though it loses its rhythm in English—that goes: "Latvian genes drive the search for mushrooms."
Actually there Is the antidote to the deathcap. It was discovered 2-3 years ago
Wow just the sixties.. i would never have guessed we didn't classify them differently from plants until so late..🤯
good ideal