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~ Winner of the Royal Society Science Book Prize - 2021
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
There exists a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works. Neither plant nor animal, it is found throughout the earth, the air and our bodies. It can be microscopic, yet also accounts for the largest organisms ever recorded, living for millennia and weighing tens of thousands of tons. Its ability to digest rock enabled the first life on land, it can survive unprotected in space, and thrives amidst nuclear radiation.
A mind-altering journey into this hidden kingdom of life, Entangled Life shows how fungi are key to understanding the planet on which we live, and the ways we think, feel and behave. The more we learn about fungi, the less makes sense without them.
“Entangled Life is grand and dizzying in how thoroughly it recalibrates our understanding of the natural world.” -- Ed Yong, bestselling author of An Immense World