The Biotechnological Palimpsest: From Evolutionary Scratches to the Synthetic Future
About this book
The history of biotechnology is not a single, uninterrupted line of progress. It is, rather, a palimpsest - a layered manuscript in which older texts of evolutionary tinkering, premodern fermentation craft, and indigenous biological knowledge are never fully erased, but persist beneath the more recent inscriptions of molecular engineering,
genomics, and synthetic biology. Each generation of biotechnologists writes its innovations on a surface already marked by what came before.
