Chance and necessity : an essay on the natural philosophy of modern biology
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Chance and necessity : an essay on the natural philosophy of modern biology
（Penguin books）
Penguin Books, 1997
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Le hasard et la nécessité
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A classic of science writing, this text remains a statement of Darwinian natural selection as a process driven only by "chance and necessity" of purpose or intent.
Table of Contents
- Of strange objects
- vitalisms and animisms
- Maxwell's demons
- microscopic cybernetics
- molecular ontogenesis
- invariance and perturbations
- evolution
- the frontiers
- the kingdom and the darkness. Appendices: structure of proteins
- nucleic acids
- the genetic code
- note concerning the second law of thermodynamics.
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