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Chance and Necessity. Chance and Necessity: Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology (French: Le Hasard et la Nécessité: Essai sur la philosophie naturelle de la biologie moderne) is a 1970 book by Nobel Prize winner Jacques Monod. Aimed at a general audience, the book describes the basic characteristics of life, reviews findings of ...
Feb 11, 2013 · Chance and necessity; an essay on the natural philosophy of modern biology by Monod, Jacques. Publication date 1971 Topics Biology -- Philosophy, Biology Publisher
May 29, 2020 · Chance: Coincidence, a fortuitous thing. Necessity: An irresistible impulse that makes causes work in a certain way. In the final years of his career, Jacques Monod published his book Chance and Necessity (1970), in which he divulged advances and theories of modern molecular biology. The book was very well received and has become a reference text.
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Nov 21, 1971 · Both points are relevant to Jacques Monod's “Chance and Necessity.” To gether with two French colleagues, Monod was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1965 for work on the synthesis of protein in ...
Jun 1, 2015 · 1. Introduction. In his famous book Le hasard et la nécessité.Essai sur la philosophie naturelle de la biologie moderne (1970), 1 Jacques Monod claims that the evolution of living systems is based on chance and necessity, which are both required for the interplay of perturbations and invariance to result in evolutionary adaptive change.
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Jacques Monod Knopf , 1971 - Science - 198 pages "A philosophical statement whose explicit intention is to sweep away as both false and dangerous the 'animist' conception of man that has dominated virtually all Western world views from those of primitive cultures to those of dialectical materialists.
Sep 12, 1972 · Monod's thinking is an earlier occurrence of thinking that has led to today's Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, etc. Well written discussion of evolution, genetics and the probability that the existence of all life is but a chance happening among many possibilities.
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