Time's Arrow and Evolution
：Time's Arrow and Evolution
( Princeton Legacy Library )
Publication subTitle ：Time's Arrow and Evolution
Publication series ：Princeton Legacy Library
Author： Blum Harold Francis
Publisher： Princeton University Press
Publication year： 2015
E-ISBN: 9781400874736
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691023540
P-ISBN(Hardback): 9780691622293
Subject： P159 cosmology
Keyword： 普通生物学
Language： ENG
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Description
In a book that has become a milestone of scientific writing Dr. Blum uses "time's arrow," the second law of thermodynamics, as a key concept to show how the nature and evolution of the nonliving world place limits on the nature and evolution of life. He seeks to show that, from the beginning of the universe, physical and chemical laws have inexorably channeled the course of evolution so that possibilities were already limited when life first emerged.
Originally published in 1951.
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