Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Monod , Jacques (1997-08-28), Chance and necessity, Retrieved on 2012-06-12Source Material [books.google.com]
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12 JUN 2012
Natural Selection is Not Chance
Even today a good many distinguished minds seem unable to accept or even to understand that from a source of noise natural selection could quite unaided have drawn all the music of the biosphere. Indeed natural selection operates upon the products of chance and knows no other nourishment; but it operates in a domain of very demanding conditions, from which chance is banned.Folksonomies: natural selection chance
Folksonomies: natural selection chance
It is an algorithm, a set of rules.
12 JUN 2012
Evolution and Entropy are Irreversible
Evolution in the biosphere is therefore a necessarily irreversible process defining a direction in time; a direction which is the same as that enjoined by the law of increasing entropy, that is to say, the second law of thermodynamics. This is far more than a mere comparison: the second law is founded upon considerations identical to those which establish the irreversibility of evolution. Indeed, it is legitimate to view the irreversibility of evolution as an expression of the second law in t...Evolution is irreversible?