this article contorts itself to try and conform reproductive success with highly iterative natural selection towards a persistent expanded conscious that the mushrooms can't directly help with, citing burgeoning non-peer reviewed research,
when they could just as easily cite burgeoning non-peer reviewed research on epigenics, which allows for same generation evolution from the diet and other things, operating in parallel to evolution by natural selection
Reminiscent of Terrence McKenna's Stoned Ape Theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoned_ape_theory