Francois Jacob and Jacques Monod have referred to natural selection as a tinkere

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Francois Jacob and Jacques Monod have referred to natural selection as a tinkerer. Why is this a particularly appropriate analogy for how he process of natural selection operates? Francois Jacob and Jacques Monod have referred to natural selection as a tinkerer. Why is this a particularly appropriate analogy for how he process of natural selection operates? Francois Jacob and Jacques Monod have referred to natural selection as a tinkerer. Why is this a particularly appropriate analogy for how he process of natural selection operates?

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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.

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