tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post3095612886292653322..comments2024-03-27T14:50:47.345-04:00Comments on <center>Sandwalk</center>: Nobel Laureates: Jacques MonodLarry Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05756598746605455848noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-87362721222023169822006-11-23T08:33:00.000-05:002006-11-23T08:33:00.000-05:00No, that's Monod's friend and long-time collaborat...No, that's Monod's friend and long-time collaborator, François Jacob. The French word <i>bricolage</i> is usually translated as <i>tinkering</i> in English.<br /><br /> <i>Natural selection has no analogy with any aspect of human behavior. However, if one wanted to play with a comparison, one would have to say that natural selection does not work as an engineer works. It works like a tinkerer—a tinkerer who does not know esactly what he is going to produce but uses whatever he finds around him whether it be pieces of string, fragments of wood, or old cardboards; in short it works like a tinkerer who uses everything at his disposal to produce some kind of workable object.</i><br /><a href="http://bioinfo.med.utoronto.ca/References/references.html#Jacob<br />(1977)">François Jacob (1977) p.1163</a>Larry Moranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05756598746605455848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-82866303487051053322006-11-23T07:08:00.000-05:002006-11-23T07:08:00.000-05:00Didn't Monod coin the term bricolage to describe b...Didn't Monod coin the term <i>bricolage</i> to describe biological structures - messy collections of molecules put together with hard to discern boundaries. Nothing like what the kooks out of that place on the West Coast like to make out biology to be?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com