LEADER 05378nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910790319003321 005 20230801223824.0 010 $a1-281-60366-X 010 $a9786613784353 010 $a981-4401-24-2 035 $a(CKB)2670000000230184 035 $a(EBL)982504 035 $a(OCoLC)804661860 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000737881 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12264920 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000737881 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10789210 035 $a(PQKB)10813744 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC982504 035 $a(WSP)00002743 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL982504 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10583629 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL378435 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000230184 100 $a20120807d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aInformation theory and evolution$b[electronic resource] /$fJohn Scales Avery 205 $a2nd ed. 210 $aHackensack, N.J. $cWorld Scientific$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (277 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a981-4401-23-4 311 $a981-4401-22-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; Preface; 1. PIONEERS OF EVOLUTIONARY THOUGHT; Aristotle; Averroes; The mystery of fossils; Condorcet; Linnaeus; Erasmus Darwin; Lamarck; The debates between Cuvier and Geoffroy St. Hilaire; Suggestions for further reading; 2. CHARLES DARWIN'S LIFE AND WORK; Family background and early life; Aboard the Beagle; Work in London and Down; The Origin of Species; The Descent of Man; The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals ethology; Suggestions for further reading; 3. MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION; Classical genetics; The structure of DNA; Protein structure; RNA and ribosomes 327 $aThe genetic codeGenetic engineering; The Polymerase Chain Reaction; Theories of chemical evolution towards the origin of life; Molecular evidence establishing family trees in evolution; Symbiosis; Suggestions for further reading; 4. STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND INFORMATION; The second law of thermodynamics; Maxwell's demon; Statistical mechanics; Information theory Shannon's formula; Entropy expressed as missing information; Cybernetic information compared with thermodynamic information; The information content of Gibbs free energy; What is life?; Suggestions for further reading 327 $a5. INFORMATION FLOW IN BIOLOGYCybernetic (or semiotic) information codes and languages; The language of molecular complementarity; The flow of information between and within cells; Nervous systems; Animal languages; Suggestions for further reading; 6. CULTURAL EVOLUTION AND INFORMATION; The coevolution of human language, culture, and intelligence; Y-chromosomal DNA and mitochondrial DNA; Mitochondrial Eve and Y-Chromosomal Adam; Exodus: Out of Africa; Acceleration of human cultural evolution; Early forms of writing; The invention of paper, ink, and printing; The information explosion 327 $aInformation-driven human cultural evolution as part of biological evolutionSuggestions for further reading; 7. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; The first computers; Electronic digital computers; Cybernetics; Microelectronics; The history of the Internet and World Wide Web; Self-reinforcing information accumulation; Suggestions for further reading; 8. BIO-INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; The merging of information technology and biotechnology; Self-assembly of supramolecular structures Nanoscience; Molecular switches; bacteriorhodopsin; Neural networks, biological and artificial; Genetic algorithms 327 $aArtificial lifeSuggestions for further reading; 9. LOOKING TOWARDS THE FUTURE; Tensions created by the rapidity of technological change; Can information-driven society achieve stability?; Respect for natural evolution; Construction versus destruction; Suggestions for further reading; Appendix A ENTROPY AND INFORMATION; Appendix B BIOSEMIOTICS; Suggestions for further reading; Appendix C ENTROPY AND ECONOMICS; Human society as a superorganism, with the global economy as its digestive system; Frederick Soddy; Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen; Limits to Growth A steady-state economy 327 $aBiological carrying capacity and economics 330 $aInformation 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 606 $aEvolution (Biology) 606 $aInformation theory in biology 615 0$aEvolution (Biology) 615 0$aInformation theory in biology. 676 $a576.8 700 $aAvery$b John$f1933-$0624733 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790319003321 996 $aInformation theory and evolution$91099467 997 $aUNINA