Evolution as entropy : toward a unified theory of biology /
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| Author / Creator: | Brooks, D. R. (Daniel R.), 1951- |
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| Imprint: | Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1986. |
| Description: | xiv, 335 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/733096 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Preface to First Edition
- 1. Prelude Lawlike Behavior in Evolution
- Evolution and Developmental Biology
- Neo-Darwinism and the Origin of Higher Taxa: Of Moths and Mammals
- A Proposed Analogy Form and Function
- Summary
- 2. The Core Hypothesis
- Introduction to the Thesis Energy and Information
- Information Entropy and Information
- Some Biological Interpretations
- Thermodynamics Information Theory
- Hierarchical Information Theory
- Informational Capacity
- Order and Disorder Closed Systems
- Noise Self-Organizing Systems
- Biological Phenomenology
- The Nature of the Initial Conditions
- Information Cohesion
- Physiological Phenomenology
- Research Programs
- Summary
- 3. Ontogeny, Morphology, and Evolution
- Ontogenesis as a Nonequilibrium Phenomenon
- The Genome as an Organized Unit
- Terminal Changes
- Nonterminal Changes
- Entropic Behavior of Ontogenesis
- Compensatory Changes
- Compensatory Changes and the Course of Evolution
- Historical Analysis and Ontogeny
- Summary
- 4. Populations and Species Evolution in Populations
- Information Overall
- Estimates of Information
- Entropy Information
- Partitioning and Multiple Populations
- Patterns of Change in Information
- Proximal Mechnisms of Changes in Information
- Cohesion Factors Affecting Cohesion
- Cohesion within a Population
- Cohesion among Populations
- Cohesion and Entropy
- Summary
- Remarks Species and Speciation
- Modes of Speciation
- Speciation and Entropy Changes
- Comment on Punctuated
- Equilibrium Species, Phylogenetic Tree Topologies, and Entropy
- Summary
- 5. Mapping Historical Change
- Linguistic and Structuralist Approaches to Systematics
- Syntax Systematic Technique Derived from Entropy Considerations
- Phylogenetic Systematics
- The Wagner Algorithm Semantics
- Semantic Components
- Historical Constraints and Outgroups
- Parsimony and Minimum Entropy Increases Information Considerations
- Cohesion Considerations
- Testing for Departures from Minimum Entropy Configurations
- "Linguistic Affinities" of Systematic Techniques
- Summary
- 6. Macroecology
- Macroscopic Properties of Ecological Associations
- Historical Ecology Life History
- Cycles and Ecology
- Coevolution and Colonization Vicariance
- Biogeography Separating Historical and Proximal
- Ecological Associations--Two Examples
- Historical Ecology and Competition
- Summary
- 7. Reprise and Prelude
- References
- Index
