Evolutionary Trajectory: The Growth of Information in the History and Future of Earth (World Futures General Evolution Studies)

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Coren's empirically based Evolutionary Trajectory is the result of an innovative application of a cybernetic model of change and growth to the study of evolution.

Author(s): Richard L. Coren
Edition: 1
Publisher: CRC Press
Year: 1998

Language: English
Pages: 239
Tags: Биологические дисциплины;Теория эволюции;

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Introduction to the Series......Page 12
Preface......Page 14
Acknowledgments......Page 16
INTRODUCTION......Page 18
QUANTITATIVE MEASURE......Page 22
GENESIS......Page 44
BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION......Page 56
POST-BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION......Page 80
GROWTH AND ORGANIZATION......Page 92
CYBERNETIC EVOLUTION......Page 110
ENTROPY......Page 128
INFORMATION......Page 144
PROGRESS IN TIME......Page 170
CONSEQUENCES......Page 186
DERIVATION OF THE EVOLUTIONARY TRAJECTORY......Page 214
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF THE EVOLUTIONARY TRAJECTORY......Page 218
References......Page 222
Index......Page 234