Chance and Necessity

Jacques Lucien Monod 1910–1971 – a French scientist, biochemist, and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate in medicine and physiology, philosopher and musician, active participant in the French Resistance during World War II. Jacques Monod wrote numerous scientific articles and only one... book, which, however, immediately attracted attention and became the subject of vivid discussions among creationists and Darwinists. Is man alone in the Universe? How and why have countless millennia of evolution made us, homo sapiens, who we are? And is there any meaning in the emergence of life at all? Consistent in his Darwinism, Monod, nevertheless, sharply departs from Darwin's theory in everything concerning the non-random transmission of traits, and presents evolution as a kind of game of biological roulette. What place is reserved for man in this game, and is he free in his choice?