![]() These eukaryotic organisms, which include mushrooms, yeasts and moulds, fall under their own kingdom, and have more in common with animals, Sheldrake says. ![]() Until the 1960s, fungi were classified as plants, but that's no longer the case. Now he's written a book on fungi called Entangled Life, which looks at how the micro-organisms could help everyone understand our planet better. "But we took many of them, then pressed them and made a cider, which was delicious to my surprise, " he told ABC RN's Life Matters. No one was going to eat the apples," Sheldrake says, of the legendary scientist's reportedly dour personality. "Some likened the flavour to Newton's character in his later life. ![]() When he was studying at Cambridge University, he went scrumping and stole apples, said to be the same variety that inspired Sir Isaac Newton's law of gravity, from the botanic gardens to make natural yeast-fermented cider. His love for fermenting went well beyond those four walls. Merlin Sheldrake says that without fungi, there would be no land plants. ![]()
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