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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Avery, John, 1933-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: River Edge, N.J. : World Scientific, ©2003.
Subjects:
Evolution (Biology)
Information theory in biology.
Théorie de l'information en biologie.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Evolution.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1 PIONEERS OF EVOLUTIONARY THOUGHT; Chapter 2 CHARLES DARWIN'S LIFE AND WORK; Chapter 3 MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION; Chapter 4 STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND INFORMATION; Chapter 5 INFORMATION FLOW IN BIOLOGY; Chapter 6 CULTURAL EVOLUTION AND INFORMATION; Chapter 7 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; Chapter 8 BIO-INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; Chapter 9 LOOKING TOWARDS THE FUTURE; Appendix A ENTROPY AND INFORMATION; Appendix B BIOSEMIOTICS; Index.

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