Epigenetics: Localizing biology through co-laboration

New Genetics and Society

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 219-242

  Niewöhner, Jörg ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Epigenetics; Local biology; New materialism; Ontography

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EPIGENETICS; ETHNOGRAPHY; HUMAN; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY;

EID: 84929241246     PISSN: 14636778     EISSN: 14699915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14636778.2015.1036154     Document Type: Article

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