TY  - Type of reference 
TI  - What is speculative biology? 
AU  - Jean-Claude Dupont 
AB  - Starting from Georges Chapouthier’s exercise, the article proposes a brief history of the imaginary of living beings up to speculative biology. At first unbridled, this imagination meets the biological sciences in the 19th century, which impose constraints on the extraterrestrial creatures of science fiction stories. Later, speculative biology will consist in systematically imagining the properties of possible extraterrestrial living entities by analogy with those of terrestrial life, taking into account plausible physical constraints and the knowledge of biology. Even if it cannot be an academic discipline, speculative biology is a rigorous approach, as well as a multiform artistic practice. 
DO  - 10.21494/ISTE.OP.2022.0790 
JF  - Art and Science 
KW  - speculative biology,  imaginary life,  exobiology,  paleoart,  bioart, biologie spéculative,  imaginaire du vivant,  exobiologie,  paléoart,  bioart,  
L1  - https://openscience.fr/IMG/pdf/iste_artsci22v6nspe_1.pdf 
LA  - en 
PB  - ISTE OpenScience 
DA  - 2022/02/3 
SN  - 2515-8767 
TT  - Qu’est-ce que la biologie spéculative ? par Jean-Claude Dupont 
UR  - https://openscience.fr/What-is-speculative-biology 
IS  - Special issue 
VL  - 6 
ER  -