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200 10$aInformation theory and evolution$b[electronic resource] /$fJohn Avery
210   $aRiver Edge, NJ $cWorld Scientific Pub.$d2003
215   $a1 online resource (233 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a981-238-399-9 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aPreface; 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
330   $aThis 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.
606   $aEvolution (Biology)
606   $aInformation theory in biology
615  0$aEvolution (Biology)
615  0$aInformation theory in biology.
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