British biologist who proposed morphic resonance — the hypothesis that natural systems inherit memory from previous similar systems through a morphic field — and has become the most prominent scientific heretic in contemporary biology.
Morphic resonance: organisms inherit not just genetic information but a 'morphic field' encoding the habits of their predecessors. Formative causation. Science Set Free (The Science Delusion): a critique of scientific materialism — ten assumptions that are treated as dogma and ought to be empirically investigated. This puts him firmly outside mainstream science but with a significant popular following.
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