Sheldrake's basic folly, argues Wolpert, is that he is pushing the notion of morphic resonance at precisely the time when strictly biochemical analysis of cell structure and organization is close to providing a comprehensive explanation for morphogenesis, the process by which living creatures acquire their shapes. (discovermagazine.com)
He has pushed the hypothesis of morphic resonance for 20 years and claims, rather bitingly, that his motivation is a too - rare reverence for science as a vehicle for addressing deep, difficult questions. (discovermagazine.com)
Sheldrake is not the first to posit the existence of morphic fields. (discovermagazine.com)