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Staff member of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, India.

Studied biology and biochemistry at Cambridge University where he earned his Ph.D., followed by a fellowship at Harvard where he spent a year studying philosophy and history. His training urged him to change scientists' understanding of the human mind.

Controversial biologist and originator of the theory of morphogenetic fields, a theory that proposes a new way to understand the nature of the mind through his hypothesis concerning morphic fields and morphic resonance.

Sheldrake lives in London and teaches biology at Schumacher College, "An International Centre for Ecological Studies", in Devon, England. In February, 2003, he taught a class called 'Animal Magic: Science Beyond The Microscope' with Jane Goodall, Francoise Wemelsfelder, and Colin Tudge.

His book, 'A New Science of Life' (1981) shows his name on the verso of the title page as: A. Rupert Sheldrake.