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Information theory and evolution /
This highly interdisciplinary book discusses the phenomenon of life, including its origin and evolution (and also human culturalevolution), against the background of thermodynamics, statisticalmechanics, and information theory. Among the central themes is theseeming contradiction between the second...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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River Edge, N.J. :
World Scientific,
©2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This highly interdisciplinary book discusses the phenomenon of life, including its origin and evolution (and also human culturalevolution), against the background of thermodynamics, statisticalmechanics, and information theory. Among the central themes is theseeming contradiction between the second law of thermodynamics and thehigh degree of order and complexity produced by living systems. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 217 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9812564454 9789812564450 9812383999 9789812383990 9812384006 9789812384003 1281876844 9781281876843 |