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Pauli letter collection: letter to Pascual Jordan

Pauli writes on the concept of chance in biology and on the lack of a quantitative definition of biological probabilities. He suspects that the present conception of evolution is still essentially incomplete. The two parameters of selection and mutation are logically independent of each other. It is...

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Autor principal: Pauli, Wolfgang
Lenguaje:ger
Publicado: 2001
Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/85764
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Sumario:Pauli writes on the concept of chance in biology and on the lack of a quantitative definition of biological probabilities. He suspects that the present conception of evolution is still essentially incomplete. The two parameters of selection and mutation are logically independent of each other. It is not the gene that is thesmallest unit of life but the cell as Bohr has emphasized.