干旱区生态环境知识资源中心(Arid): (Human-Inflected) Evolution in an Age of (Human-Induced) Extinction: Synthetic Biology Meets the Anthropocene

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DOI	10.3390/h9040126
	(Human-Inflected) Evolution in an Age of (Human-Induced) Extinction: Synthetic Biology Meets the Anthropocene
	Wodak, Josh
通讯作者	Wodak, J (corresponding author), Western Sydney Univ, Inst Culture & Soc, Sydney, NSW 2150, Australia.
来源期刊	HUMANITIES-BASEL
EISSN	2076-0787
出版年	2020
卷号	9 期号:4
英文摘要	At the advent of the Anthropocene, life is being pushed to its limits the world over; we are currently living through the Sixth Mass Extinction to occur since multicellular life first emerged on the planet 570 million years ago. Evolutionary biologist E.O. Wilson sums up this push in the opening gambit of his book The Future of Life: the race is now on between the techno-scientific forces that are destroying the living environment and those that can be harnessed to save it. Contra Wilson, this paper addresses the paradox arising from proposals to harness techno-scientific forces ... to save the living environment while other forces continue to destroy it. By framing human-inflected evolution in an age of human-induced extinction, this article asks what could or should conservation become, if 'conserving' imperiled species might now require genetic interventions of the synthetic kind. Drawing upon recent key markers of the race, this paper presents a notional conservation for the Anthropocene-namely, that such a conservation proposes active intervention not only into ecosystems but into evolution itself. And yet, such interventions can only be considered in the context of the planetary scale that is the Anthropocene-writ-large, as per the desertification of the Amazon or the collapse of Antarctic ice sheets, the spatial scale of the microbial world, and on the temporal scale of evolution. Viewed within such a context, this paper presents technoscientific conservation as paradoxically being both vital and futile, as well as timely and too late.
英文关键词	cultural imaginary environmental humanities environmental ethics synthetic biology conservation biology microbiology Anthropocene evolution
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	gold
收录类别	ESCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000683353100012
WOS关键词	TIME
WOS类目	Humanities, Multidisciplinary
WOS研究方向	Arts & Humanities - Other Topics
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/363525
作者单位	[Wodak, Josh] Western Sydney Univ, Inst Culture & Soc, Sydney, NSW 2150, Australia
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wodak, Josh. (Human-Inflected) Evolution in an Age of (Human-Induced) Extinction: Synthetic Biology Meets the Anthropocene[J],2020,9(4).
APA	Wodak, Josh.(2020).(Human-Inflected) Evolution in an Age of (Human-Induced) Extinction: Synthetic Biology Meets the Anthropocene.HUMANITIES-BASEL,9(4).
MLA	Wodak, Josh."(Human-Inflected) Evolution in an Age of (Human-Induced) Extinction: Synthetic Biology Meets the Anthropocene".HUMANITIES-BASEL 9.4(2020).

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