The use of mushrooms by humanity dates back to paleolithic times. No one really knows how influential an affect mushrooms have had on the course of human evolution. Mushrooms were important to the ancient Greeks, in India and Meso-america.
They have a beguiling nature and fungi have always brought up deep emotional responses: Adoration from those who understand them and fear from those who don't.
Ancient people had no concept of spores so the fungus was considered a virgin birth. People saw that the mushrooms came after rains and they would pick them early in the morning. It has been suggested that this was the Manna from Heaven that the Israelites gathered.
Mushrooms are of the fungi family subdivision of Basidiomycotina, of the class Hymenomycetes. The word mushroom is derived from the Gallo-Roman mussiro which evolved to mussereroun in Middle English.
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