Jacques Monod and Ernest Borek Editors of Microbes and Life
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Constraints on the origin and evolution of life.
As an introduction to my topic, let me quote from the 1970 bestseller, Chance and Necessity, by the late Jacques Monod. In this “essay on the natural philosophy of modern biology”, as the book is subtitled, the celebrated French biologist attempted, as many have done before and after him, to derive some sort of Weltanschauung from the science of his day. On the existence of intelligent life on ...
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