Wicken, Jeffrey S. “Entropy, information, and nonequilibrium evolution.” Systematic Zoology 32, no. 4 (1983): 438-443.
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Wiley and Brooks’ (1982) suggestion that speciation is an entropic phenomenon sounds in many ways like an idea whose time has come. The past two decades have witnessed new ties being forged between entropic dissipation and self-organization (see Glansdorff and Prigogine, 1971), and a significant body of theory has already begun to emerge regarding the thermo-dynamic bases of prebiotic evolution and the emergence of life (Morowitz, 1968; Prigogine et al., 1972; Black, 1978; Wicken, 1980). So a thermodynamic theory of spe-ciation would seem to fall on receptive soil.