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- Merlin Sheldrake (born 1987) is a British mycologist and writer known for his work on mycorrhiza. Early life and education Merlin Sheldrake was born in 1987 in London to Rupert Sheldrake, an English author and parapsychology researcher, and Jill Purce, a therapist. He grew up near Hampstead Heath in London.
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Merlin Sheldrake was born in 1987 in London to Rupert Sheldrake, an English author and parapsychology researcher, and Jill Purce, a therapist. [1][2] He grew up near Hampstead Heath in London. [3] . His brother, Cosmo Sheldrake, is a musician.
It has been translated into thirty-two languages. Merlin is the presenter of Fungi: Web of Life, a giant screen documentary narrated by Björk. Merlin’s research ranges from fungal biology, to the history of Amazonian ethnobotany, to the relationship between sound and form in resonant systems.
Jun 8, 2023 · The kitchen of the London house where Merlin Sheldrake grew up. He and his brother were raised without television or video games. Their mother and father are both unconventional and see...
Jan 22, 2022 · Merlin Sheldrake, 34, received a PhD in tropical ecology from Cambridge university for his work on underground fungal networks in forests in Panama. Entangled Life, his first book, won the...
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Merlin grew up in London. He is the son of Rupert Sheldrake and author and therapist Jill Purce. He is the brother of the musician Cosmo Sheldrake.
Sheldrake received his undergraduate degree from Cambridge in biological sciences, where he also earned a Master's in the history and philosophy of science. For his Ph.D in Tropical ecology from Cambridge, he conducted research into mycorrhizal fungi in tropical forests. Sheldrake was a predoctoral research fellow of the Smithsonian Tropical Resear...
Merlin is the author of Entangled Life: How fungi make our worlds, change our minds and shape our futures, which won numerous awards and prizes including the Royal Society Science Book prize, and was an inspiration for the Spring 2021 couture collection by Iris van Herpen. He is the presenter and executive producer of the IMAX film "Fungi: Web of L...
Sheldrake is the author of Entangled Life. Entangled Life book was named on Time magazine's list of the 100 Must-Read Books of 2020, The Daily Telegraph list of the 50 Best Books of 2020, and was chosen as one of the best books of 2020 by The Times, the Telegraph, the Daily Mail. It was serialized on BBC Radio 4 as the book of the week. It won the ...
Sheldrake, Merlin; Rosenstock, Nicholas P.; Revillini, Daniel; Olsson, Pål Axel; Mangan, Scott; Sayer, Emma J.; Wallander, Håkan; Turner, Benjamin L.; Tanner, Edmund V. J. (2017-01-02). "Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community composition is altered by long-term litter removal but not litter addition in a lowland tropical forest". New Phytologist. ...
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Oct 13, 2021 · Long before chilly neolithic explorers utilised certain fungi as fire-starters, fungi helped the very first plants crawl out of the primordial soup and help create the conditions for life on land around 500 million years ago. “The ancestors of plants were algae,” Sheldrake explains.
Jul 13, 2020 · Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist and a writer with a background in plant sciences, microbiology, ecology, and the history and philosophy of science. He received a Ph.D. in tropical ecology from Cambridge University for his work on underground fungal networks in tropical forests in Panama, where he was a pre-doctoral research fellow of the ...
