Abstract
Abstract The number of structural variants possible on the molecular level as expressed, say, by numbers of possible isomers of component molecules is here compared to the number of individuals that can make up any taxon in a finite world. One finds that the former number (the size of the combinatorial ‘master set’) is invariably vast compared to the number of individuals in a taxon. It is next pointed out that this relationship of vast multiplicity (quite different in nature from anything outside the structural world of organic compounds) can confidently be taken as the basis for what, on a more philosophical view, is described as the autonomy of organic life.
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