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Physical description:
x, 376 pages illustrations 23 cm
Type:
Congresses
Congrès
Kongress
Conference papers and proceedings
Place:
Fullerton (Calif.)
Date:
1988
1985
Notes:
Based on papers presented at a conference on evolution, entropy, and information, held at California State University, Fullerton, May 1985, and sponsored by the University's School of Natural Science and Mathematics
"A Bradford book"
Contents:
Entropy in an expanding universe / Steven Frautschi -- Growth of order in the universe / David Layzer -- Parity violation and the origin of biomolecular chirality / Dilip Kondepudi -- Kinetic theory of living pattern and form and its possible relationship to evolution / Lionel G. Harrison -- The thermodynamic origin of ecosystems / Lionel Johnson -- Thermodynamics, ecological succession, and natural selection / Eric D. Schneider -- Thermodynamics, evolution, and emergence : ingredients for a new synthesis / Jeffrey S. Wicken -- Entropy and evolution / E.O. Wiley -- Dollo's law and the second law of thermodynamics : analogy or extension? / Daniel R. Brooks, D. David Cumming and Paul H. LeBlond -- The dynamics of biological order / John Collier -- Observations on evolution / John Olmsted III -- Entropy and evolution : sorting through the confusion / F.A. Hopf -- Evolution as nonequilibrium thermodynamics / John H. Campbell -- Teleology and biology / Richard T. O'Grady and Daniel R. Brooks -- Consequences of nonequilibrium thermodynamics for the Darwinian tradition / David J. Depew and Bruce H. Weber -- Cities as dissipative structures / C. Dyke
