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Why do many phenonmena defy the explanations of conventional biology and physics? For instance, when laboratory rats in one place have learned how to navigate a new maze, why do rats elsewhere seem to learn it more easily? Rupert Sheldrake describes this process as morphic resonance: the past forms and behaviors of organisms, he argues, influence organisms in the present through direct connections across time and space. Calling into question many...
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NEW SCIENCE / BIOLOGY
"As far-reaching in its implications as Darwin's theory of evolution."
--Brain/Mind Bulletin
"An important scientific inquiry into the nature of biological and physical reality."
--New Scientist
"An immensely challenging and stimulating hypothesis, which proposes an unorthodox approach to evolution."
--Arthur Koestler, author of The Lotus and the Robot and The Ghost in the Machine
"Sheldrake is a Cambridge-trained research...
About the Author
Rupert Sheldrake , Ph.D., is a former Research Fellow of the Royal Society and was a scholar of Clare College, Cambridge, and a Frank Knox Fellow at Harvard University. His other books include The Presence of the Past, The Rebirth of Nature, and Seven Experiments That Could Change the World. He lives in London with his wife and two sons.
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- PublisherPaladin Grafton Books
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0586085831
- ISBN 13 9780586085837
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages287
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