Monod gives the example of antibody development to show how chance combinations can give a well defined solution.

The men differed widely, genes from every breed of mankind scrambled in chance combinations.

Or, if you'd rather, call it a chance combination of environment and circumstances, coupled with an individual's unique abilities.

Those three just happened to be the ones with the exact chance combination of talent and character that the Alien Federation's looking for.

Acqua alta (the chance combination of high tide and strong winds) therefore remains an emergency for at least the next seven years.

I take it that some very primitive form of life arose spontaneously on earth from chance combinations of atoms.

It is nothing, it is unimportant, a freak thrown up by a chance combination of components.

With N.A.G., she said, chance combinations play a greater role.

For that guilt to be transferred to the person with whom you, by chance combination, produced a doomed, tormented offspring?

Fribbs, however, had been trying chance combinations, laboring long with a trial-and-error process.