The Science and Philosophy of the "Thermodynamic School" of Evolution
This paper was written by E. D. Schneider and J. J. Kay and published in 1994. The title provides a clear view of the focus of the paper. One of the many interesting things about this paper is that the authors make this case regarding life and the second law without utilizing the concept of…
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This article was written by Joseph J. Vallino and published in 2010. It was included in a special issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Biological Science, (Volume 365, Issue 1545) that focused on the principle of maximum entropy production in ecological and environmental systems. Vallino argues that there is a difference between…
This paper was written by L. M. Martyushev and V. D. Seleznev and published in 2006. The abstract states: “The tendency of the entropy to a maximum as an isolated system is relaxed to the equilibrium (the second law of thermodynamics) has been known since the mid-19th century. However, independent theoretical and applied studies, which…
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