Evolution as Entropy: Toward a Unified Theory of Biology
University of Chicago Press (1988)
| Abstract | "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. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Evolution (Biology Philosophy Entropy Biology Philosophy | |||||||||
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| Call number | QH371.B69 1988 | |||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 0226075737 | |||||||||
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