Avery, John creator text New Jersey World Scientific 2022 3rd ed. monographic eng

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xii, 316 p. 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. John Avery Includes bibliographical references and index. Eng Biometry-Data processing Evolution (Biology)-Statistical methods Data processing 577.0727 AVE-I 9789811253096 260514 20260514155428.0