Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins employs the typing monkey concept in his book The Blind Watchmaker to demonstrate the ability of natural selection to produce biological complexity out of random mutations.
Evolutionsbiologen Richard Dawkins benytter konceptet med de skrivende aber i sin bog The Blind Watchmaker (Den blinde urmager) fra 1986 til at demonstrere den naturlige selektions evne til at producere biologisk kompleksitet ud af tilfældige mutationer.