Plants only made it out of the water around five hundred million years ago because of their collaboration with fungi, which served as their root systems for tens of million years until plants could evolve their own. Many of the most dramatic events on Earth have been-and continue to be-a result of fungal activity. The following is an excerpt from Engangled Life, reposted with permission. Harpignies, or read a transcript of the interview. Visit the Bioneers Intelligence in Nature Media Collection to see an interview with Sheldrake by Bioneers Senior Producer J.P. Sheldrake takes us on a worldwide exploration of these applications, challenging our very notions of interconnectedness and the intelligence of nature. Fungi plays many crucial roles in our ecosystems, as food and medicine and decomposers and recyclers. In Entangled Life, Sheldrake shares the wisdom he’s learned from studying fungi - a diverse kingdom of organisms essential to how our world and minds work. Merlin Sheldrake is a young biologist and author of the new book, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures.
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