Closing Human Evolution: Life in the Ultimate Age

• Main Author: Kováč, Ladislav (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Evolutionary Biology,
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Biology > Philosophy.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Evolutionary biology.; Sociophysics.; Econophysics.; Life Sciences.; Evolutionary Biology.; Socio- and Econophysics, Population and Evolutionary Models.; Philosophy of Biology.; Popular Life Sciences.; Philosophy of the Social Sciences.

This volume analyses the evolution of humankind by combining approaches from science and the arts. It offers a novel perspective on the evolution of life on Earth, based on a recent reformulation of the second law of thermodynamics in terms of the “maximum entropy production principle.” In essence,...

Table of Contents:

• Prelude
• First movement. Life as a cosmic imperative
• Second movement. Evolutionary uniqueness of humans
• Third movement
• The ultimate optimism: Finitics
• Finale.