Edit: looking at all the elaborate replies, I cannot help being amazed. Here I thought the Fedi is overrepresented by computer geeks (such as yours truly) but obviously they've got NOTHING on the biologically inclined here! 🥰😍

If poisonous mushrooms are poisonous because it is advantageous for the survival of the specific species, are non poisonous mushroom relatively speaking weaker, less well equipped for the furthering of their species? I suppose that the ability to survive and further a species is multifaceted and that being poisonous or the lack thereof is just one of many parameters?

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As for ourselves, and most other mammals: we rely heavily on social relationships, so much so that our survival depends on them. Suddenly becoming poisonous would be a big disadvantage to us. Imagine if all pets and livestock got poisoned from us touching them.

Well we're kind of poisoning the world already. But you get what I mean.

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