Prigogine, Ilya Winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work on ‘dissipative structures’ - an aspect of chaos theory which is important in the understanding of self-organisation and the development of

out of chaos’, to use Ilya Prigogine ’s famous phrase: they could spontaneously move to greater forms of organization, driven always by the internal production and dissipation of entropy (i.e., ‘dissipative systems’), and

molecular biology and Ilya Prigogine in irreversible thermodynamics and theoretical biology. As Monod emphasizes, evolution depends on chance, in the sense of two independent causal chains, operating in living organisms: one is at the