Information Theory, Evolution, and The Origin of Life
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 18, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780521802932
Subjects: Information Theory; Molecular biology; Life; Science; Science/Mathematics; Origin; Life Sciences - Biology - Molecular Biology; Life Sciences - Genetics & Genomics; Science / Biology; Information theory in biology; Evolution (Biology)
First sentence: Socrates (The Republic, Book VI, p.745) had noted, in an earlier conversation with Glaucon, that students of geometry and reckoning first set up postulates appropriate to each branch of science, treating them as known absolute assumptions, taking it for granted that they are obvious to everybody.