Toby Kiers, biologist: "Fungi can teach us how to make decisions otherwise"
The youngest scientist to receive the Tyler Prize, the informal Nobel Prize for the Environment, explains the role of fungi in the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems. Reduced in the popular imaginary to the edible, pathogens and psychedelic, she claims them as the great forgotten of science
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Toby Kiers, biologist: "Fungi can teach us how to make decisions otherwise" — Image credit: Marc Driessen (EL PAÍS)
The youngest scientist to receive the Tyler Prize, the informal Nobel Prize for the Environment, explains the role of fungi in the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems. Reduced in the popular imaginary to the edible, pathogens and psychedelic, she claims them as the great forgotten of science