Speed reading: Chris Nancollas enjoys popular science
When you think of fungi, it is hard not to think of something distasteful – weird growths on trees, for example, or noisome skin infections.
When you think of fungi, it is hard not to think of something distasteful – weird growths on trees, for example, or noisome skin infections. In fact, as Merlin Sheldrake reveals in Entangled Life (Bodley Head, £20; Tablet price £18), fungi are one of the most remarkable elements in the biosphere, a vital factor in the development of plant and animal life, as well as providing mankind with such essentials as bread, penicillin and alcohol.
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