Author: Yockey, Hubert P.
Title: Information Theory, Evolution, and The Origin of Life
Description: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005. orig.boards. 24x15cm, xi,259 pp. Minor rubbing. A 3cm tear to top rear exterior hinge. Good. ¶ Contents: The genetic information system; James Watson, Francis Crick, George Gamow and the genetic code; The central dogma of molecular biology; The measure of information content in the genetic message; Communication of information from the genome to the proteome; The information content or complexity of protein families; Evolution of the genetic code and its modern characteristics; Haeckel's Urschleim and the role of the central dogma in the origin of life; Philosophical approaches to the origin of life; Error catastrophe and the hypercycles of Eigen and Schuster; Randomness, complexity, the unknowable and the impossible; Does evolution need an intelligent designer? ["This timely introduction to the use of information theory and coding theory in molecular biology demonstrates how information theory and coding theory tools can be used for measuring the information in the sequences of the genome and the proteome. Hubert Yockey writes for mathematicians and molecular and evolutionary biologists, and includes more advanced mathematical concepts in an appendix for reference. His work is essential for a complete understanding of the nature and origin of life" - Publisher's description].

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