Information theory, evolution, and the o
β Hubert P. Yockey
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2005
π Cambridge University Press
π English
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Information theory, evolution, and the origin of life
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Content: 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?
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