Can life be engineered? Epistemological roots and blind spots of Synthetic Biology

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Issue		BIO Web of Conferences Volume 4, 2015 ORIGINS – Studies in Biological and Cultural Evolution


Article Number		00016
Number of page(s)		13
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/bioconf/20150400016
Published online		24 June 2015

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