Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world’s most innovative biologists and writers is best known for his theory of morphic fields and morphic resonance, which leads to a vision of a living, developing universe with its own inherent memory.

He first worked in developmental biology at Cambridge University, and is currently Director of the Perrott-Warrick project.
Rupert Sheldrake... Biography
A Guide to the Website Rupert's Science and Philosophy

Are the laws of nature more like habits?
A summary of the hypothesis of Morphic Resonance.

A New Science of Life/Morphic Resonance
A fully revised new edition of the controversial science classic. Released in the UK February 5.
Order the new 2009 edition:A New Science of Life (Amazon UK only)
The book will be published in the US in October 2009 under the title Morphic Resonance
US Edition
"Books of this importance and elegance come along rarely. Those who read this new edition of A New Science of Life may do so with the satisfaction of seeing science history in the making." - Larry Dossey, MD

On July 9, in the New Scientist, Lewis Wolpert and Rupert announced a wager on the predictive power of the genome.
The wager will be decided on May 1, 2029, and if the outcome is not obvious, the Royal Society, the world’s most venerable scientific organization, will be asked to adjudicate. The winner will receive a case of fine port, Quinta do Vesuvio, 2005, which should have reached perfect maturity by 2029 and is being stored in the cellars of The Wine Society.
Lewis Wolpert bets that the following will happen. Rupert bets it will not:
By May 1, 2029, given the genome of a fertilized egg of an animal or plant, we will be able to predict in at least one case all the details of the organism that develops from it, including any abnormalities.
Both agree that at present, given the genome of an egg, no one can predict the way an embryo will develop.
The wager arose from their debate on the nature of life at the 2009 Cambridge University Science Festival, which you can hear in streaming audio here (see the stop press column on the right).
Both have set out their cases in New Scientist here: The Genome Wager

Take part in research with your friends by doing simple experiments with mobile phones or online.

Can you tell who's calling?
Can you tell when someone is hearing the same music as you?
Can you tell when you are being stared at?

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Rupert's book A New Science of Life was published in the UK in 2009 in a completely revised new edition, with an update on research on morphic resonance. It has been published in the US under the new title Morphic Resonance.
His international bestseller Dogs That Know When Their Owners are Coming Home is now available in 13 different languages
USA and Canada
Britain and Ireland

Do some dogs really know when their owners are coming home?
Hear what Rupert Sheldrake and skeptic Richard Wiseman have to say on the Skeptiko podcast
Take part in the debate and participate in a new research project at Open Source Science. Open Source Science
New Skeptico research... Video of dog experiment
Grants are available for this research.

For the last six years Rupert and Andrew Weil have held a series of dialogues on science and healing, available here online.
New Online: Plants - Hollyhock August 2009

Also: New Science and the Future – August 2008.
Placebos and Mind-Body Relationships - August 2007

Rupert has had encounters or debates with a wide range of skeptics. Find out what they say and how Rupert replies to them:
Peter Atkins - Radio 5 discussion on telepathy, Transcript
Robert A. Baker , Robert Todd Carroll, Richard Dawkins, Chris French - Does Telepathy Happen? debate, David Marks, James Randi, Michael Shermer, Lewis Wolpert, John Maddox, Richard Wiseman , The European Skeptics Congress, and others.
Controversies

Online audio recordings of a series of lively, far-reaching discussions between Rupert and his close friends Ralph Abraham and Terence McKenna.

These took place between 1989 and 1998 in America and England.
We are progressively building the full collection. Latest on line is
A Report on Crop Circles
The Trialogues - Further explorations into the crop circle mystery.

Rupert's mind-stretching trialogues are published in two books The Evolutionary Mind and Chaos, Creativity and Cosmic Consciousness.
USA and Canada
Britain and Ireland

N’Kisi, an African grey parrot, is the most accomplished language-using animal in the world.
He also seems able to read his owners mind.
Read more about N’kisi

Rupert’s paper with Aimee Morgana... Testing a language-using animal for telepathy

Rupert’s scientific papers are available here online, including his recent papers on email and telephone telepathy.