Entropy and life
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Research concerning the relationship between the thermodynamic quantity entropy and the evolution of life began around the turn of the 20th century. In 1910, American historian Henry Adams printed and distributed to university libraries and history professors the small volume A Letter to American Teachers of History proposing a theory of history based on the second law of thermodynamics and on the principle of entropy.
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See also
- Abiogenesis
- Adaptive system
- Complex systems
- Dissipative system
- Ecological entropy – a measure of biodiversity in the study of biological ecology
- Ectropy – a measure of the tendency of a dynamical system to do useful work and grow more organized
- Entropy (order and disorder)
- Extropy – a metaphorical term defining the extent of a living or organizational system's intelligence, functional order, vitality, energy, life, experience, and capacity and drive for improvement and growth
- Negentropy – a shorthand colloquial phrase for negative entropy
- Self-organization - In non-equilibrium thermodynamics, entropy and dissipative structures are connected to self-organization phenomenon (patterning, orderliness). Life systems and its subsystems are dissipative sctructures with some degree of self-organization.
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