The author engagingly instructs on the symbiotic relationship between fungi and the roots of seed plants. Sheldrake shows how fungal lives have made him rethink what he thought he knew about evolution, ecosystems, intelligence, and life. Sheldrake does an excellent job conveying just how essential fungi are to the processes of life-“as regenerators, recyclers, and networkers that stitch worlds together”-despite the fact that so little of their operations is fully understood. “Yet they live their lives largely hidden from view, and over ninety percent of their species remain undocumented.” Fungi are busy everywhere, from the bottom of the sea to the recesses of your nostrils, ranging in size from the microscopic to sprawling networks that are among the largest organisms on Earth. “Fungi provide a key to understanding the planet on which we live, and the ways that we think, feel, and behave,” writes the author in this delightfully granular debut book. A deep-running mycological inquiry from fungal biologist Sheldrake.
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