Can recent developments in thermodynamics and information theory offer a way out of the current crisis in evolutionary theory? One of the most exciting and controversial areas of scientific research in recent years has been the application of the principles of nonequilibrium thermodynamics to the problems of the physical evolution of the universe, the origins of life, the structure and succession of
ecological systems, and biological evolution. These sixteen original essays by evolutionists, ecologists,
molecular biologists, physical chemists, physicists, and philosophers of science provide the best current summary of this
developing research program. Chapters in the book's first part - by…
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