Ashlee’s Reviews > Togetherness: Symbiosis and the Hidden Story of Life's Greatest Collaborations > Status Update

I know Darwin's research has done a lot for science, but it's becoming more apparent throughout this book how much damage he's done by inadvertently influencing eugenics.

So what im getting is art and philosophy were the precursor to STEM and formed the ideas that science can now prove, so the arts are kind of a science. My brain is breaking.

Either I forgot all of high school biology, or I never read the chapter, but how did I not know that mitochondria and chloroplasts evolved from prokaryotic cells that were absorbed by eukaryotic cells?

The Last of Us was right. We should be freaked out by fungus. You're telling me trees communicate and share nutrients with each other through webs of fungus that connect their roots? Also, some termites don't actually eat wood they just break it down to feed to fungus so that they can farm it to eat? Crazy stuff

Just thinking about how much further ahead science would be if it hadn't been so driven by misogyny and the male ego

Ok, only on the introduction, but the idea that we view nature and evolution as promoted by competition rather than symbiosis because the world favours a capitalist mentality over a communist mentality is blowing my mind.