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The British biologist Merlin Sheldrake, this year’s featured author for The Humanities Institute’s (THI) seventh annual Deep ...
ENTANGLED LIFE is about much more than fungi. Merlin Sheldrake's book wends its way through the most prominent features of modern mycological research, from classical symbiosis through psychoactive ...
The splendidly named Merlin Sheldrake is the son of the maverick biologist Rupert Sheldrake, who famously came up with the idea of 'morphic resonance'. This suggests that all living things somehow ...
British biologist Merlin Sheldrake—renowned for his scientifically rigorous and lyrical explorations of fungal networks and interconnected life—is this year’s featured author for The Humanities ...
Eating rubbish and the interpenetration of life ... this entrancing study of fungi changes our view of the world “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in ...
There is a great, third kingdom of life lying hidden at our feet – that of the fungi. By Tim Flannery There is a great, third kingdom of life lying hidden at our feet – that of the fungi. So ...
Merlin Sheldrake has won the £25,000 Royal Society Science Book Prize for Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures (Bodley Head), praised by judges for its ...