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Information, Entropy, and Progress

A New Evolutionary Paradigm

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  • © 1994

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Authors:
  1. Robert U. Ayres
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Market: Those in economics, especially thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, cybernetics, information theory, resource use, and evolutionary economic behavior. This book presents an innovative and challenging look at evolution on several scales, from the earth and its geology and chemistry to living organisms to social and economic systems. Applying the principles of thermodynamics and the concepts of information gathering and self- organization, the author characterizes the direction of evolution in each case as an accumulation of "distinguishability" information--a type of universal knowledge.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Information, Entropy, and Progress

  • Book Subtitle: A New Evolutionary Paradigm

  • Authors: Robert U. Ayres

  • Publisher: American Institute of Physics Melville, NY

  • Copyright Information: American Institute of Physics 1994

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-88318-911-5Published: 08 May 1997

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 301

  • Topics: Physics, general

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