A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology

Conclusion

There is a close link throughout human history – since humankind became sedentary and practiced agriculture and husbandry – between biology and technology. On the one hand, the (modern) science of biology may study, in the main, naturally occurring plants and animals (in their natural habitats); on the other, especially since the turn of the twentieth century, genetics (as a biological science) has consistently lent its theoretical understanding of organisms to the technological domain, and hence, crucially, brings about not only the technological but also the ontological transformation of naturally occurring beings to become biotic artifacts.