When Ants Domesticated Fungi

Eons

10th May 2022 10 mins Season 6 Episode 31

While we’ve been farming for around 10,000 to 12,000 years, the ancestors of ants have been doing it for around 60 million years. So when, and how, and why did ants start … farming?

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