Future historians will ponder the mycophilia that fruited sometime during the ‘long crisis’ that followed the 2008 financial meltdown. Just as the Victorians crazed for the geometric certainties of the fern, so the mushroom has emerged as a natural analogue for an era of tumult: confounding old categories, unsettling states of consciousness, and utilising the network effects that have become an ever more direct feature of our lives. Mushrooms are having a moment.
Now Richard Fortey, a decorated palaeontologist with a lifelong side passion for fungi, has plugged his hyphae into the matrix. His ...
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