Possible and biotechnologies

This book is a presentation of the philosophical and scientific foundations of the development occurring in the field of biotechnologies. And it is a development based, philosophically, on the idea of achieving the possible dear to the hearts of philosophers in all times and places. In this book, also, is a presentation of the close relationship between biotechnology and biological evolution, with an explanation of the achievements of biotechnologies and molecular biology in the last thirty years, such as oxygen-depleted RNA, and various forms of cloning. The book raises issues related to the ethics of science and what is called science policies, in terms of their relation to biotechnologies, and it calls for thinking about the ethical responsibility in science and the relationship between society and the development of biology. These are two issues that have been urgently raised for about thirty years.