ISBN 9781857239676

Uitgever Little, Brown Book Group

Taal Engels

Categorie science fiction fantasy

Meer info 2000, paperback, good copy

Extra informatie An interdisciplinary discussion of the phenomenon of life, including its origin and evolution (and also human cultural evolution), against the background of thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and information theory. Among the central themes is the seeming contradiction between the second law of thermodynamics and the high degree of order and complexity produced by living systems. This paradox has its resolution in the information content of the Gibbs free energy that enters the biosphere from outside sources, as the author shows.

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