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The total structural informational content of the biosphere emerges as a quantitative measure of functional efficiency in processing information, and as an objective criterion of evolutionary progress.
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THEODORIDIS, G., STARK, L. Information as a Quantitative Criterion of Biospheric Evolution. Nature 224, 860–863 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/224860a0
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