Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures, Merlin Sheldrake (3.0)
This book is filled with many eye-opening facts about Fungi and their relationships with plants and animals. I particularly enjoyed the chapter on truffles and how they have evolved a desirable scent in order to procreate. Since they are buried deep at a plant’s roots, their odor needs to be strong enough for a pig or dog to find it, eat it and defecate farther away for it to spread it’s ‘genes’. Also, interesting that the symbiotic relationship of the truffle with the plant is too complex for farmers to replicate, hence there are no real cultivated truffles! Mr. Sheldrake does a good job of describing the vastness of fungi (2.2-3.8 million species) and their complexities. I did find the book was a little redundant at times and didn’t hold my interest through all the chapters. If you are at all interested in the largest Kingdom, you will likely find this book interesting.
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