Exploring the Mycoverse: The Rise of Yeasts - Civilization's Symbiont

What isExploring the Mycoverse?It's afungi-focusedcommunity education group exploring the many ways fungi can teach us about the inextricable interconnectedness of all life. The group regularly meets to discuss fungi media such as texts, books, articles,  films, and podcasts!

Aaron Tupac

Join us in learning the story behind how yeasts played a vital symbiotic role in forming civilization. A tale of who domesticated who?

Arlington Garden

<h3>Exploring the Mycoverse Presents – The Rise of Yeasts - Civilization's Symbiont by Nicholas P. Money</h3>Yeast is life!T﻿his month we will be taking another journey into mycocentrism – how fungi build worlds, and in this case, shaped our world dramatically. This book is a celebration of yeast, our favorite microorganism and partner in brewing, winemaking, and baking. It is the story of the 10,000-year-old marriage between humans and yeast that led to agricultural settlement and served as a major factor in the development of civilization. We domesticated yeast, and yeast domesticated us.I﻿n the first session of this two part discussion series of Nicholas P. Money's The Rise of Yeasts: How the Sugar Fungus Shaped Civilization we will be discussing the first three chapters on the introduction to the Yeasty Basics, yeasts + drink, and yeasts + food. Before our discussion we invite you to read:<ul><li>C﻿hapters 1-3 Introduction, Drink, and Food (roughly 75 pages)</li></ul>Y﻿ou can purchase the book <a href="https://www.themycologist.com/books-microbiology-mushrooms-fungi-mold" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>.Publisher's summary:The great Victorian biologist Thomas Huxley once wrote, "I know of no familiar substance forming part of our every-day knowledge and experience, the examination of which, with a little care, tends to open up such very considerable issues as does yeast." Huxley was right. Beneath the very foundations of human civilization lies yeast--also known as the sugar fungus. Yeast is responsible for fermenting our alcohol and providing us with bread--the very staples of life. Moreover, it has proven instrumental in helping cell biologists and geneticists understand how living things work, manufacturing life-saving drugs, and producing biofuels that could help save the planet from global warming.In The Rise of Yeast, Nicholas P. Money--author of Mushroom and The Amoeba in the Room--argues that we cannot ascribe too much importance to yeast, and that its discovery and controlled use profoundly altered human history. Humans knew what yeast did long before they knew what it was. It was not until Louis Pasteur's experiments in the 1860s that scientists even acknowledged its classification as a fungus. A compelling blend of science, history, and sociology The Rise of Yeast explores the rich, strange, and utterly symbiotic relationship between people and yeast, a stunning and immensely readable account that takes us back to the roots of human history.A﻿bout the author<a href="https://www.themycologist.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Nicholas P. Money</a> is a gentleman of letters, mycologist, and professor at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He is the author of popular science books that celebrate the diversity of the microbial world. His exploration of the timelines of biology, Nature Fast and Nature Slow: How Life Works, from Fractions of a Second to Billions of Years, was published in 2021 and work on a new book on the effects of fungi on human health is close to completion. What larks, Pip.&gt;﻿&gt;&gt;What is Exploring the Mycoverse you ask? It's a fungi-focused community education group exploring the many ways fungi can teach us about the inextricable interconnectedness of all life. The group regularly meets to discuss fungi media such as texts, books, articles, films, and podcasts.Okay, I'm in, where will we be discussing? We will be meeting outdoors, the west side terrace of Arlington Garden. Limited tickets are available specifically for Arlington Garden provided seating otherwise there are tickets available to bring your own chair and join the discussions. See you soon! Join our mycelial network: <ul><li>Sign up for our <a href="https://aarontupac.substack.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">email newsletter.</a></li><li>Follow Exploring the Mycoverse on<a href="https://instagram.com/mycoverse_?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> instagram</a>.<a href="https://www.instagram.com/exploring_the_mycoverse/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"></a></li></ul>

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