Author: JANINA WELLMANN

Biological Motion studies the foundational relationship between motion and life. For decades, information and structure have dominated the historiography of the life sciences with its prevailing focus on DNA structure and function.

Now more than ever, motion is a crucial theme of basic biological research.

Tracing motion from Aristotle’s animal soul to molecular motors, and from medical soft robotics to mathematical analysis, Wellmann locates biological motion at the intersection of knowledge domains and scientific and cultural practices.