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Informational Aspects of Evolution

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We have already dealt with the emergence of order from chaos; the latter implies the complete absence of the former. In the natural sciences we need a quantitative measure of order.

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Volkenstein, M.V. (1994). Informational Aspects of Evolution. In: Physical Approaches to Biological Evolution. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78788-1_10

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