The Science and Philosophy of the "Thermodynamic School" of Evolution
This chapter was written by Roderick C. Dewar and Amos Maritan and published in 2014. The abstract states what follows. Maximum entropy production (MaxEP) is a conjectured selection criterion for the stationary states of non-equilibrium systems. In the absence of a firm theoretical basis, MaxEP has largely been applied in an ad hoc manner. Consequently…
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This paper was written by Roderick Dewar and published in 2005. In this paper and another he published two years earlier (2003), Dewar provides a theoretical basis for the maximum entropy production principle and derives a provisional proof of it for non-equilibrium, steady-state systems, both biotic and abiotic. The abstract of this article states: “Recently…
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This paper was written by Roderick Dewar and published in 2003. In this paper and another published two years later (2005), Dewar provides a theoretical basis for the maximum entropy production principle and derives a provisional proof of it for non-equilibrium, steady-state systems, both biotic and abiotic. The abstract for this paper states: “Jaynes’ information…