David Depew
(1942-)
David Depew is Emeritus Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa, .
With
Bruce Weber, he wrote the influential 1988 book,
Entropy, Information, and Evolution: New Perspectives on Physical and Biological Evolution, based on a conference at University of California, Fullerton, in May, 1985.
Their book appeared the same year as the second edition of a controversial book by
Daniel Brooks and
E.O.Wiley, titled
Evolution as Entropy: Toward a Unified Theory of Biology , which appeared to identify Evolution with Entropy!
While Brooks and Wiley were the sole authors of their book, Depew and Weber's book was an edited collection including articles from some of the key founders of the subject, including
David Layzer (Growth of Order in the Universe),
Steven Frautschi (Entropy in an Expanding Universe),
Jeffrey Wicken (Thermodynamics, Evolution, and Emergence:Ingredients for a New Synthesis), one article by Depew and Weber themselves.(Consequences of Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics for the Darwinian Tradition), and one article each by Brooks and by Wiley.
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