Nov 11, 2017
“As biologists our great aim is to find order in all the diversity and complexity of the living world. This is something we all strive for: it is what gives us a feeling of fulfilment and satisfaction. We seek the rules that underlie living phenomena to make ignorance and confusion turn into clarity and order.”
But sometimes there is no order. John Tyler Bonner explores how randomness plays an important part in the process of evolution.
Image: ‘Peacock Plumage’ by Dean Nahum. Public Domain via Unsplash.
