by Jacques Monod · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788472236004
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«El azar y la necesidad» is Jacques Monod's essay on the natural philosophy of modern biology (Tusquets Editores, paperback, 208 pp., Spanish).
In this essay, arising from his 1969 lectures, Jacques Monod analyses the evolution of living beings as a product of chance in mutations and of the necessity of natural selection. Monod defends a biology without purpose and examines the ethical and political consequences of placing science within modern culture.
Original title: Le hasard et la nécessité (1970). Volume 6 of the Metatemas collection from Tusquets Editores. Jacques Monod received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965.
A work of interest for readers of philosophy of science and evolutionary biology seeking a classic of contemporary thought.
