Producing millions of spores is an important evolutionary adaptation of fungi because . having many spores increases the chances that they can produce seeds spores can germinate only in the right environmental conditions (moist, where there is food), so producing many spores increases the chances that at least one will end up in an area of those conditions spores can disperse only short distances, so producing many spores increases the chances that at least one will travel far enough to germinate having many spores increases the chances that they will produce fossil fuels