Evolution As Entropy: Toward a Unified Theory of Biology (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series)

Brooks, Daniel R.

ISBN 10: 0226075745 / ISBN 13: 9780226075747

Published by University of Chicago Press, 1988

About this Item

Second Edition, First Printing. Published by University of Chicago Press, 1988. Octavo. Paperback. Book is like new.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Evolution As Entropy: Toward a Unified Theory of Biology (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series)
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226075745
• ISBN 13: 9780226075747
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Like New

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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."—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."—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."—R.Gessink,TAXON

About the Author

Daniel R. Brooks is associate professor of zoology at the University of Toronto. E. O. Wiley is professor in the Department of Systematics and Ecology and curator at the Museum of Natural History at the University of Kansas.