Information Theory and Evolution

Information Theory and Evolution

Editorial Reviews
Choice, Feb 2004
well-organized and solidly researched --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Book Description
This highly interdisciplinary book discusses the phenomenon of life, including its origin and evolution (and also human cultural evolution), against the background of thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and information theory. Among the central themes is the seeming contradiction between the second law of thermodynamics and the high degree of order and complexity produced by living systems. This paradox has its resolution in the information content of the Gibbs free energy that enters the biosphere from outside sources, as the author shows. The role of information in human cultural evolution is another focus of the book. One of the final chapters discusses the merging of information technology and biotechnology into a new discipline - bio-information technology. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Information Theory and Evolution

Information Theory and Evolution,John Avery,World Scientific Pub Co Inc,9812384006,Evolution (Biology),Information Technology,Information theory in biology,Life Sciences - Evolution,Science,Science/Mathematics,Biotechnology,Evolution,Information theory,Popular science

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