INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 778 Amsterdam, June 10th, 2019 SHELDRAKE REVISITED - More on Sounds, Fields and the Origin of Form - FRANK VISSER Some years ago I wrote an essay comparing Rupert Sheldrake's theory of morphic resonance to the recent advances in "evo devo". This scientific discipline links evolutionary theory to embryology, to understand how form is generated by gene regulation. In recent decades, much has been discovered about the way organs are shaped in a developing embryo, due to the discovery of a limited set of genes (the "genetic toolkit"), common to all living beings. I invited Sheldrake to respond, which he kindly did in a brief essay. In this essay I'd like to revisit these topics, for I have continued my reading of both Sheldrake's and the evo-devo literature. It is quite remarkable that Sheldrake's ideas have not only been rejected by conventional evolutionary biology, but are not even associated with post-Darwinian schools belonging to the Extended or "Post-Modern" Synthesis.[13] Has Sheldrake stepped outside of the boundaries of science altogether by holding on to an unworkable hypothesis? Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/visser141.html