Chance vs. Necessity in Living Systems: A False Antinomy.

The concepts of order and randomness are crucial to understand 'living systems' structural and dynamical rules. In the history of biology, they lay behind the everlasting debate on the relative roles of chance and determinism in evolution. Jacques Monod [1970] built a theory where chance (randomness...

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Published in:Biology Forum / Rivista di Biologia Vol. 101; no. 1; pp. 29 - 66
Main Authors: Buiatti, Marcello, Buiatti, Marco
Format: Article
Published: Fabrizio Serra Editore 2008
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