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Evolution from a Thermodynamic Perspective - Implications for Species Conservation and Agricultural Sustainability (Paperback, 1st ed. 2022)
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Evolution from a Thermodynamic Perspective - Implications for Species Conservation and Agricultural Sustainability (Paperback, 1st ed. 2022)
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Survival of the fittest" is a tautology, because those that are
"fit" are the ones that survive, but to survive, a species must be
"fit". Modern evolutionary theory avoids the problem by defining
fitness as reproductive success, but the complexity of life that we
see today could not have evolved based on selection that favors
only reproductive ability. There is nothing inherent in
reproductive success alone that could result in higher forms of
life. Evolution from a Thermodynamic Perspective presents a
non-circular definition of fitness and a thermodynamic definition
of evolution. Fitness means maximization of power output, necessary
to survive in a competitive world. Evolution is the "storage of
entropy". "Entropy storage" means that solar energy, instead of
dissipating as heat in the Earth, is stored in the structure of
living organisms and ecosystems. Part one explains this in terms
comprehensible to a scientific audience beyond biophysicists and
ecosystem modelers. Part two applies thermodynamic theory in
non-esoteric language to sustainability of agriculture, and to
conservation of endangered species. While natural systems are
stabilized by feedback, agricultural systems remain in a mode of
perpetual growth, pressured by balance of trade and by a swelling
population. The constraints imposed by thermodynamic laws are being
increasingly felt as economic expansion destabilizes resource
systems on which expansion depends.
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