Chance and Necessity
Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology
Published on 28. August 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-14-025646-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
166 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-14-025646-8 (9780140256468)
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Persons
Content
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.