Titre : Mineral roots for the living world 

Auteurs : Thomas Heams,  

Revue : Art and Science 

Numéro : Special issue</br> 

Volume : 5 

Date : 2021/07/21 

DOI : 10.21494/ISTE.OP.2021.0706 

ISSN : 2515-8767 

Résumé : The dominant paradigm in molecular biology equates living things with precision machines ruled by a genetic program. This depiction of life contributes to radically oppose it to the mineral world, which seems to be its antithesis. However, Origins of Life studies aims to understand how life came to be in an entirely mineral context, and therefore to forge links rather than script ruptures. In so doing, it echoes many of our founding myths, and in turn it fuels contemporary science fiction, which is populated by strange hybrid creatures between biology and minerality. This is actually a path that science is also exploring, where the living would not be torn away from the minerality but would maintain a reciprocal, complex and long-term relationship with it. The epistemological consequences of this approach are profound, and contribute to renewing the definitions of life itself. 

Éditeur : ISTE OpenScience