A New Science of Life
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A New Science of Life

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A New Science of Life

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**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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Publisher
Icon Books
Year
2005
ISBN
9781848314450
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Biology
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Comments on previous editions of a New Science of Life
  3. Also by Rupert Sheldrake
  4. About the Author
  5. Title Page
  6. Copyright
  7. Dedication
  8. Contents
  9. Preface: To the 2009 Edition
  10. Introduction
  11. 1. The Unsolved Problems of Biology
  12. 2. Three Theories of Morphogenesis
  13. 3. The Causes of Form
  14. 4. Morphogenetic Fields
  15. 5. The Influence of Past Forms
  16. 6. Formative Causation and Morphogenesis
  17. 7. The Inheritance of Form
  18. 8. The Evolution of Biological Forms
  19. 9. Movements and Behavioural Fields
  20. 10. Instinct and Learning
  21. 11. The Inheritance and Evolution of Behaviour
  22. 12. Four Possible Conclusions
  23. Appendix A: New Tests for Morphic Resonance
  24. Appendix B: Morphic Fields and The Implicate Order
  25. Notes
  26. References
  27. Index of Names
  28. Index of Subjects