Introduction to Special Issue
“Life” is a central concept in multiple cultures and academic disciplines. Reports on “human-made life” in the context of synthetic biology provide an interesting opportunity to introduce and compare different notions of the central concept of “life” and to discuss the idea of artificial life....
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2013
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In: |
Worldviews
Year: 2013, Volume: 17, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-9 |
Further subjects: | B
artificial life
biotechnology
cultural variety
definitions of life
synthetic biology
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Volltext (Verlag) |
Summary: | “Life” is a central concept in multiple cultures and academic disciplines. Reports on “human-made life” in the context of synthetic biology provide an interesting opportunity to introduce and compare different notions of the central concept of “life” and to discuss the idea of artificial life. |
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ISSN: | 1568-5357 |
Contains: | In: Worldviews
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685357-01701001 |