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The title is the name of a Science book review on the following book:
From Strange Simplicity to Complex Familiarity, by Manfred Eigen, published back in April.
The review was published in the current issue of Science, but it's behind a paywall. It's interesting though, if you're at a university you might be able to access it through the library.
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/39.summary
Has anyone here read the book? An excerpt from the review:
(5) M. A. Nowak, K. Sigmund, Science 303, 793 (2004)
(6) B. Sinervo, C. M. Lively, http://www.tb.ethz.ch/education/model/RPS/sinervo.pdf (1996)
The five chapters of the book are:
1) Matter and Energy
2) Energy and Entropy
3) Entropy and Information
4) Information and Complexity
5) Complexity and Self-Organisation
From Strange Simplicity to Complex Familiarity, by Manfred Eigen, published back in April.
The review was published in the current issue of Science, but it's behind a paywall. It's interesting though, if you're at a university you might be able to access it through the library.
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/39.summary
Has anyone here read the book? An excerpt from the review:
The book offers a joyful but not shallow route through the complications that arise on the way from elementary particles to complex forms of life. However, Eigen only touches on some additional complications: If evolving entities can interact, then the fitness landscape (which provides the basis for evolution) may itself be a dynamic product of the interactions (5). In this way, evolutionary dynamics can lead to eternal cycles (6), which would only be halted by effects not covered by basic mathematical models of evolution.
(5) M. A. Nowak, K. Sigmund, Science 303, 793 (2004)
(6) B. Sinervo, C. M. Lively, http://www.tb.ethz.ch/education/model/RPS/sinervo.pdf (1996)
The five chapters of the book are:
1) Matter and Energy
2) Energy and Entropy
3) Entropy and Information
4) Information and Complexity
5) Complexity and Self-Organisation
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