Key insights from
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
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10 minute read
Published May 12, 2020
What you'll learn
We have little idea the universe swirling beneath our feet. Much more than mushrooms, fungi have nestled into just about every corner of the planet and allow for life as we know it to continue. Biologist Merlin Sheldrake takes us on a tour of this teeming world hiding just below the surface.
Key insights
- • What you'll learn
- 1 Most fungi exist out of sight and out of mind, but their time in the sun is overdue.
- 2 Truffle mushrooms have concocted chemicals that have rendered them indispensable to humans and a wide variety of animals.
- 3 Fungi are equipped to break through all kinds of stubborn substances.
- 4 Fungi behavior is challenging our concepts of intelligence and helping us solve human problems.
- 5 It’s not a perfect metaphor, but we can think of fungi as a central, connecting force of the “wood wide web.”
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