Reposted by Pauline Chasseray-Peraldi
Collaborative work with philosopher Simon Vanderstraeten just out in @theoryculturesociety.org: "Biology's dark matter: From galaxies to microbes." We examine what is at stake in the conceptual translation of 'dark matter' from the physical to the life sciences
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Biology’s Dark Matter: From Galaxies to Microbes - Simon Vanderstraeten, Adam Searle, 2025
Emergent research in metagenomics has unveiled large quantities of previously unknown and unclassified prokaryotic DNA. As these prokaryotes constitute the vast...
