Brooks, Daniel R., Edward O. Wiley, and D. R. Brooks. Evolution as entropy . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.
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By combining recent advances in the physical sciences with some of the novel ideas, techniques, and data of modern biology, this book attempts to achieve a new and different kind of evolutionary synthesis. I found it to be challenging, fascinating, infuriating, and provocative, but certainly not dull.