This 1987 book was the first to cover the growing consensus of knowledge and ideas concerning evolutionary biology of the fungi in the widest sense.

This 1984 symposium volume was the first of its kind to deal specifically with the vegetative fungal mycelium.

Drawing especially on insights emerging from studies of the cellular networks formed by fungi, this book describes the fundamental indeterminacy that enables life forms to thrive in and create inconstant circumstances. It explains how indeterminacy arises from counteraction between associative and dissociative processes at the reactive interfaces between living systems and their surroundings. It stresses the relevance of these processes to understanding the dynamic contexts within which living systems of all kinds — including human societies-explore for, use up, conserve and recycle...