Proving Darwin Making Biology Mathematical

Name: Proving Darwin Making Biology Mathematical
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ISBN: 9781400077984

ISBN-10: 1400077982

ISBN-13: 9781400077984

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Authors: Gregory Chaitin

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Groundbreaking mathematician Gregory Chaitin gives us the first book to posit that we can prove how Darwin’s theory of evolution works on a mathematical level. For years it has been received wisdom among most scientists that, just as Darwin claimed, all of the Earth’s life-forms evolved by blind chance. But does Darwin’s theory function on a purely mathematical level? Has there been enough time for evolution to produce the remarkable biological diversity we see around us? It’s a question no one has yet answered—in fact, no one has even attempted to answer it until now. In this illuminating and provocative book, Gregory Chaitin argues that we can’t be sure evolution makes sense without a…

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List price: $25.99
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/26/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 5.10" wide x 7.90" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.286
Language: English



A Parable


Contradictory Quotes?


Problem Solvers and Theorizers



Preface



Introduction: Overview of Proving Darwin



Life as Evolving Software: The Evolution of Mutating Software



The Human Discovery of Software: Turing and von Neumann as Biologists



The Mathematics of Metabiology: Random Walks in Software Space



Santa Fe Institute Lecture: A Mathematical Theory of Evolution and Biological Creativity



Theological Aspects of Metabiology



The Politics of Creativity (Social Darwinism → Social Metabiology)



What Can Mathematics Ultimately Accomplish? Metabiology and Beyond



Von Neumann's "DNA = Software" Paper



The Heart of the Proof


Further Reading


Index