The Darwinian idea that the initial appearance, evolution and steady refinement of ever more intensely teleonomic structures are due to perturbations occurring in a structure which already possesses the property of invariance - hence is capable of preserving the effects of chance and thereby submitting them to the play of natural selection.

Monod, Jacques: Chance and Necessity (1970)

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