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Numéro d'OCLC: 808340730
Auteur: Avery, John,1933-
Titre: Information theory and evolution
Éditeur: Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific, 2012.
Description: 1 online resource (xii, 264 pages) :illustrations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Résumé: Information Theory and Evolution 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 will show. The role of information in human cultural evolut.
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Sujet: Evolution (Biology); Information theory in biology.; Information theory in biology.; Evolution (Biology); Théorie de l'information en biologie.
ISBN: 9789814401241; 9814401242; 9814401226; 9789814401234; 9814401234; 9789814401227