Rupert Sheldrake

British biologist and author (born 1942), best known for his controversial hypothesis of morphic resonance — the idea that nature carries an inherent memory, with forms and habits reinforced across time.

Trained at Cambridge, where he was a Fellow of Clare College working in developmental biology, Sheldrake also served as Principal Plant Physiologist at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics and later directed the Perrott-Warrick project on unexplained human and animal abilities. His books — from A New Science of Life to The Science Delusion — argue against a purely mechanistic biology in favor of a more organic, holistic account of nature.

Role in Fuller's orbit

Sheldrake's connection to Fuller is thematic and countercultural: he belongs to the strand of holistic, anti-reductionist science that runs alongside Fuller's whole-systems, nature-has-a-generating-logic worldview, and that the same alternative-science audiences embraced. His inclusion reflects the collection's reach into heterodox holism; no corpus work currently links to him directly.

See Also

• Robert Anton Wilson — fellow figure of the science-and-consciousness counterculture
• People in Fuller's Orbit — the register of figures around Fuller in which he appears
• Marilyn Ferguson (Marilyn Ferguson) — related figure

Sources

• Rupert Sheldrake (source reference) — Zotero People collection (author website)