by Elio — The prac­tice of agri­cul­ture is not lim­ited to hu­mans: ants, ter­mites, and snails all grow fungi, and who knows who else do some­thing sim­i­lar. But not many have claimed that such ac­tiv­i­ties are to be found among sim­pler or­gan­isms. Now we have a re­port that slime molds have also…