TWINBLUE  wrote:

> >I have here the book "Evolution as Entropy" by Brooks and Wiley
> >(1986).  Is it worth reading it? 
> 
> I have never heard of the book (although I now intend to find a copy.) However
> in my view evolution (and life period) is "antientrophic".
Sort of a low grade
> version
> of Maxwell's demon. 
> As for a connection between the two fields
> perhaps you have heard of the creationists
> absurd attempts to claim that evolution
> is prohibited by the second law?

Schrödinger claimed in 1943 that life was negentropic, but in fact life
is merely a dissipative entropic process, using free energy to maintain
structure. Look up Ilya Prigogine's work on the topic. I second Guy
Hoelzer's recommendation of _Darwinism Evolving_ as an introduction to
this topic, but I am not sure that it has generated much in the way of
useful theoretical work yet. Again, let me mention Chaisson.

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

Depew, David J., and Bruce H. Weber. 1995. Darwinism evolving: systems
dynamics and the genealogy of natural selection. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT
Press.
-- 
John Wilkins
"Listen to your heart, not the voices in your head" - Marge Simpson
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