the ant thing. So.. I get "close to the nest so it infects other ants" but .. is this not just statistics doing what darwinism does? if the fungus infects an ant far away, it has less outcome on the infection rate. the statistics of random chance infection ultimately favour the variances in the fungus, which produces more infection "close" to the hive. It has specific infectability, periodicity, plays to the ants day/night patterns, because its "more fit" statistically it skews to higher reproduction.

I much prefer a statistical model and skew, to intentionality language. maybe its me.