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QueenRooibos t1_j1y5l47 wrote

Here is my book group's NF choice for Jan 2023 -- I have already read it and enjoyed it a lot. All that you didn't know you wanted to know about fungi -- from the first life on earth through today and tomorrow (someone else suggested it, so I don't know where she copied this "blurb" from...)

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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
In Entangled Life, the brilliant young biologist Merlin Sheldrake shows us the world from a fungal point of view, providing an exhilarating change of perspective. Sheldrake’s vivid exploration takes us from yeast to psychedelics, to the fungi that range for miles underground and are the largest organisms on the planet, to those that link plants together in complex networks known as the
“Wood Wide Web,” to those that infiltrate and manipulate insect bodies with devastating precision.
Fungi throw our concepts of individuality and even intelligence into question. They are metabolic masters, earth makers, and key players in most of life’s processes. They can change our minds, heal our bodies, and even help us remediate environmental disaster. By examining fungi on their own terms, Sheldrake reveals how these extraordinary organisms—and our relationships with
them—are changing our understanding of how life works. 

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