Jacques Monod
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Sep 23, 2026
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SammyHOST
The French biochemist and Nobel laureate, Dr. Jacques Monod, famously said, all that is true for E. coli is true for the elephant.
SammyHOST
And you might be thinking, okay, had Monod ever actually seen an elephant? Which is a totally fair question.
SammyHOST
On the surface, we see lots of differences between the single-celled bacterium and the elephant, which contains upwards of a quadrillion cells.
Oliver LibbyGUEST
But yeah, so my grandfather and my great great uncle both won Nobel Prizes separately for medical discoveries.
Oliver LibbyGUEST
My great great uncle was a man named Jacques Monod, who was French and got the Nobel Prize in 1965 for discovering messenger RNA.
Oliver LibbyGUEST
which used to be more arcane.
Oliver LibbyGUEST
And then since COVID, everyone knows what that is.
Romain BretteGUEST
So we have to find another word.
Romain BretteGUEST
And so Monod, for example, used the word teleonomy because the other word was forbidden.
Romain BretteGUEST
But so, yeah, and the cognitivists, that's also what they are trying to explain.
Romain BretteGUEST
They say, no, we're not just a bunch of reflexes, right? We are computing something.