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"How different mushrooms learned the same psychedelic trick" - The Conversation
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Dr. Fabrizio Alberti has written the article "How different mushrooms learned the same psychedelic trick" for The Conversation on a new discovery that two different mushrooms have evolved the ability to make the psychedelic psilocybin, the first time that convergent evolution has been observed in two organisms from the fungal kingdom.