Evolution as Entropy: Toward a Unified Theory of Biology (Science and its conceptual foundations)

Daniel R. Brooks; E. O. Wiley

ISBN 10: 0226075818 / ISBN 13: 9780226075815

Published by University of Chicago Press, 1986

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Evolution as Entropy: Toward a Unified Theory of Biology (Science and its conceptual foundations)
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226075818
• ISBN 13: 9780226075815
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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Synopsis

"By combining recent advances in the physical sciences with some of the novel ideas, techniques, and data of modern biology, this book attempts to achieve a new and different kind of evolutionary synthesis. I found it to be challenging, fascinating, infuriating, and provocative, but certainly not dull."â James H, Brown, University of New Mexico

"This book is unquestionably mandatory reading not only for every living biologist but for generations of biologists to come."â Jack P. Hailman, Animal Behaviour, review of the first edition

"An important contribution to modern evolutionary thinking. It fortifies the place of Evolutionary Theory among the other well-established natural laws."â R.Gessink,TAXON

Reviews

This serious and scholarly tome unites the theory of biological evolutioni.e., that biological systems tend to become more ordered and highly structured through evolutionary timewith the seemingly contradictory second law of thermodynamicsi.e., that disorder or entropy increases over time. The authors argue that , in fact, living systems exhibit growing complexity and self-organization as a result of increasing entropy. They support their difficult yet logical arguments with a wide range of examples taken from developmental biology, embryology, morphology, population genetics, systematics, and community ecology. Not easy going for the casual reader, but well worth the effort for others. Recommended for academic collections .P. Robert Paustian, Wilkes Coll. Lib., Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
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