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Author(s): Avery, John Scales
ISBN(s): 9789812383990, 9812383999
Edition: Illustrated
File Details: PDF, 12.25 MB
Year: 2003
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 9812383999 
ISBN 13: 9789812383990
Author: Avery John Scales

This highly interdisciplinary book discusses 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. The role of information in human cultural evolution is another focus of the book. One of the final chapters discusses the merging of information technology and biotechnology into a new discipline — bio-information technology.

Information Theory and Evolution 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1 PIONEERS OF EVOLUTIONARY THOUGHT
Aristotle
Averröes
The mystery of fossils
Condorcet
Linnæus
Erasmus Darwin
Lamarck
The debates between Cuvier and Geoffroy St. Hilaire
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Chapter 2 CHARLES DARWIN’S LIFE AND WORK
Family background and early life
Aboard the Beagle
Work in London and Down
The Origin of Species
The Descent of Man
The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals; ethology
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Chapter 3 MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
Classical genetics
The structure of DNA
Protein structure
RNA and ribosomes
The genetic code
Genetic engineering
The Polymerase chain reaction
Theories of chemical evolution towards the origin of life
Molecular evidence establishing family trees in evolution
Symbiosis
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Chapter 4 STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND INFORMATION
The second law of thermodynamics
Maxwell’s demon
Statistical mechanics
Information theory; Shannon’s formula
Entropy expressed as missing information
The information content of Gibbs free energy
What is life?
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Chapter 5 INFORMATION FLOW IN BIOLOGY
Cybernetic (or semiotic) information; codes and languages
The language of molecular complementarity
The flow of information between and within cells
Nervous systems
Animal languages
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Chapter 6 CULTURAL EVOLUTION AND INFORMATION
The coevolution of human language, culture, and intelligence
Early forms of writing
The invention of paper, ink, and printing
The information explosion
Information-driven human cultural evolution as part of biological evolution
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Chapter 7 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
The first computers
Electronic digital computers
Cybernetics
Microelectronics
The history of the Internet and World Wide Web
Self-reenforcing information accumulation
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Chapter 8 BIO-INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
The merging of information technology and biotechnology
Self-assembly of supramolecular structures; Nanoscience
Molecular switches; bacteriorhodopsin
Neural networks, biological and artificial
Genetic algorithms
Artificial life
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Chapter 9 LOOKING TOWARDS THE FUTURE
Tensions created by the rapidity of technological change
Can information-driven society achieve stability?
Respect for natural evolution
Construction versus destruction
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