Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Fisher , Sir Ronald Aylmer (1999-10-21), The genetical theory of natural selection, Oxford University Press, USA, Retrieved on 2012-05-16Source Material [books.google.com]
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16 MAY 2012
Similarities of Natural Selection to the Laws of Thermody...
It will be noticed that the fundamental theorem proved above bears some remarkable resemblances to the second law of thermodynamics. Both are properties of populations, or aggregates, true irrespective of the nature of the units which compose them; both are statistical laws; each requires the constant increase of a measurable quantity, in the one case the entropy of a physical system and in the other the fitness, measured by m, of a biological population. As in the physical world we can conce...An interesting argument, difficult to follow, but important.