Universal Aspects of Biological Evolution

Epistemological Aspects of Systems Theory Related to Biological Evolution

1. Integrating Epistemology of Thermodynamics and of Biological Evolutionary Systems 1.1 Entropy and Biological Evolution 1.2 Biosphere, Entropy, and Dissipative Structures 2. Thermodynamics of Ecosystems and of Biological Evolution 2.1 The Time Paradox: Towards an Evolutionary Thermodynamics 2.2 Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics 3. Towards an Evolutionary Physics 3.1 A New Concept: Ecodynamics 4....

Biological aspects of homosexuality.

Universal Aspects of Probabilistic Automata 3

For lack of composability of their morphisms, probability spaces, and hence probabilistic automata, fail to form categories; however, they t into the more general framework of precategories, which are introduced and studied here. In particular, the notion of adjunction and weak adjunction for precategories is presented and justiied in detail. As an immediate beneet, a concept of (weak) product ...

The Universal Stages of Evolution

This paper places leadership development in the context of the evolution of consciousness from the Big Bang to the present day. It identifies the five characteristics that are at the core of all successful evolution and integrates them into a four‐part process for leadership development that supports the continuing evolution of Homo sapiens. This paper is an extract from Richard Barrett’s soon ...

Universal Pacemaker of Genome Evolution

A fundamental observation of comparative genomics is that the distribution of evolution rates across the complete sets of orthologous genes in pairs of related genomes remains virtually unchanged throughout the evolution of life, from bacteria to mammals. The most straightforward explanation for the conservation of this distribution appears to be that the relative evolution rates of all genes r...