Mycologist and Author
Merlin Sheldrake is a British mycologist and author of Entangled Life, a bestselling exploration of the hidden world of fungi that won the 2021 Royal Society Science Book Prize. He earned his PhD in tropical ecology from the University of Cambridge, studying underground fungal networks in Panama.
by Merlin Sheldrake
Sheldrake reveals fungi as hidden architects of life, decomposing, connecting, and reshaping ecosystems in ways science barely grasps. Mycelial networks challenge our notion of individuality.
The books Merlin Sheldrake references, cites, and recommends most frequently.
by Charles Darwin
Darwin lays out the evidence that species evolve through natural selection, where small heritable variations accumulate over generations. The theory unified biology and changed how we understand life.
by Richard Dawkins
Dawkins reframes evolution from the organism's perspective to the gene's. Bodies are survival machines built by genes competing to replicate - a view that transformed modern biology.
Who Merlin draws from, and who draws from Merlin — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.