Article
Towards an engineering theory of evolution.
Nature communications - 7 Jun 2021
Castle Simeon D, Grierson Claire S, Gorochowski Thomas E
Abstract excerpt
Biological technologies are fundamentally unlike any other because biology evolves. Bioengineering therefore requires novel design methodologies with evolution at their core. Knowledge about evolution is currently applied to the design of biosystems ad hoc. Unless we have an engineering theory of evolution, we will neither be able to meet evolution's potential as an engineering tool, nor understand or limit its...
Topics
- Bioengineering
- Biological Evolution
- Biotechnology
- Phenotype
- Synthetic Biology