#164 The Last of Us: the science of a fungal zombie apocalypse
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The Last of Us - Is This a Zombies?
The last of us is about a zombie fungus that manipulates the behavior of humans. The show depicts what might happen if rising temperatures led to certain parasitic fungi adapting to survive in human bodies. Is this actually something that we need to be worried about as climate change progresses? We know 150,000 species of fungi, but there's millions more. And some of those will evolve to grow at above seven degrees and then we're going to be exposed to new organisms.
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