World Fame Biochemical, Rupert Sheldrake (1942) rejects the scheme of a mechanical universe and believes in the existence of a collective memory within the species. According to this British scientific heterodox, there is a non-material connection process called "Morphic Resonance" that propagates the memory of nature and determines the evolution of the species.

This revolutionary approach has been valid to be involved in important controversies and has involved an authentic commotion in the scientific and academic world. The Brain / Mind Bulletin did not hesitate to consider this daring theory "of so much repercussion as the theory of Darwin's evolution".

Rupert Sheldrake is Research Fellow of the Royal Society and has worked as a plant physiology advisor for the Hyderabad Agricultural Research Institute, in India. He is the author of the presence of the past and a new science of life.