Alfred Rupert Sheldrake is an English scientist and author. He is known for having proposed a non-genetic account of morphogenesis and for his research into parapsychology. His books and papers stem from his theory of morphic resonance, and cover topics such as animal and plant development and behaviour, memory, telepathy, perception and cognition in general. His publications include A New Science of Life , Seven Experiments That Could Change the World , Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home , and The Sense of Being Stared At , The Science Delusion: Freeing the spirit of enquiry .... Sheldrake was born in Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire to Doris and Reginald Alfred Sheldrake , a family of Methodists. His father graduated from Nottingham University with a degree in pharmacy, was also an amateur naturalist and microscopist, and encouraged his son's interest in plants and animals. He attended Worksop College, an Anglican boarding-school, and specialized in science. Sheldrake obtained a scholarship to study Biology at Clare College, Cambridge.
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