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    Essay On The Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology (Vintage Books, New York 1972) - PP

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    This essay discusses the relationship between chance and necessity in biology. It argues that while random mutations provide variation that natural selection acts upon, the overall process is governed by necessity as only those random changes that increase fitness will be preserved. Over long periods, these combined forces of chance and necessity have led to the diversity of life we see today through a process of evolution.

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    This essay discusses the relationship between chance and necessity in biology. It argues that while random mutations provide variation that natural selection acts upon, the overall process is governed by necessity as only those random changes that increase fitness will be preserved. Over long periods, these combined forces of chance and necessity have led to the diversity of life we see today through a process of evolution.

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    This essay discusses the relationship between chance and necessity in biology. It argues that while random mutations provide variation that natural selection acts upon, the overall process is governed by necessity as only those random changes that increase fitness will be preserved. Over long periods, these combined forces of chance and necessity have led to the diversity of life we see today through a process of evolution.

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    Monod, Jacques.

    Chance and Necessity: An


    Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern
    Biology (Vintage Books, New York 1972). pp.
    3-22.

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