01189nam a22002297a 4500 20260514155428.0 260514s2022 |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9789811253096 PK-LaUMT 577.0727 AVE-I Avery, John 11776 Information theory and evolution / John Avery 3rd ed. New Jersey : World Scientific, 2022 xii, 316 p. Includes bibliographical references and index. This highly interdisciplinary book discusses the phenomenon of life, including its origin and 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. As the author shows, this paradox has its resolution in the information content of the Gibbs free energy that enters the biosphere from outside sources. Eng Biometry-Data processing 11777 Evolution (Biology)-Statistical methods Data processing 11778 BK 140785 140785 0 0 0 0 01 01 2026-05-14 0 577.0727 AVE-I 152631 2026-05-14 15:52:00 2026-05-14 BK