**The fully revised edition of Rupert Sheldrake's controversial
science classic, from the author of the bestselling Dogs That Know
When Their Owners are Coming Home, celebrates its 40th anniversary in
2021!** After chemists crystallised a new chemical for the first time,
it became easier and easier to crystallise in laboratories all over
the world. After rats at Harvard first escaped from a new kind of
water maze, successive generations learned quicker and quicker. Then
rats in Melbourne, Australia learned yet faster. Rats with no trained
ancestors shared in this improvement. Rupert Sheldrake sees these
processes as examples of morphic resonance. Past forms and activities
of organisms, he argues, influence organisms in the present through
direct connections across time and space.Individual plants and animals
both draw upon and contribute to the collective memory of their
species. Sheldrake, now Director of the Perrott-Warwick Project
supported by Trinity College, Cambridge, reinterprets the regularities
of nature as being more like habits than immutable laws. Described as
'the best candidate for burning there has been for many years' by
Nature on first publication, this updated edition will raise hackles
and inspire curiosity in equal measure.
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ISBN
9781848314450
Publisert
2015
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Icon Books Ltd
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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