Origins & Design 17:2  Marcel-Paul Schützenberger: The Miracles
of Darwinism  Marcel -Paul Schutzenberger  Marcel-Paul
Schützenberger   Until his death, the mathematician and doctor
of medicine Marcel-Paul Schützenberger (1920-1996) was Professor
of the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Paris and a
member of the Academy of Sciences. [See "From the Editors" for
additional biographical information.] In 1966, Schützenberger
participated in the Wistar Symposium on mathematical objections
to neo-Darwinism. His arguments were subtle and often
misunderstood by biologists. Darwin's theory, he observed, and
the interpretation of biological systems as formal objects, were
at odds insofar as randomness is known to degrade meaning in
formal contexts. But Schützenberger also argued that Darwin's
theory logically required some active principle of coordination
between the typographic space of the informational
macromolecules (DNA and RNA) and the organic space of living
creatures themselves -- which Darwin's theory d