Raphael Goubet  wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Could anyone recommend me some readings on the topic of evolution as
> entropy (or as negentropy, I would think)?
> 
> I think that the notion of complexity to explain evolution has been
> largely used by people such as Stuart Kauffman and Brian Goodwin, but
> I couldn't find references of writing referring to entropy.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Raphael
> 
> [moderator's note: Call me crazy, but how about Brooks and Wiley's
> book, "Evolution as Entropy"? (Univ. Chicago Press, 1988, I think).
> Worth a look, although my recollection is that it's extremely
> dense writing. - JAH]

Brooks, D. R., and E. O. Wiley. 1988. Evolution as entropy: toward a
unified theory of biology. Edited by D. L. Hull. 2nd ed, Science and its
conceptual foundations. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Add to this

Chaisson, Eric L. 2001. Cosmic evolution: The rise of complexity in
nature. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press.

The entropy in B&W is Shannon entropy, or the informational entropy of a
signal. The entropy in Chaisson is thermodynamic entropy. Personally, I
prefer the latter account.
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