Comments on: Book review – Biology’s First Law: The Tendency for Diversity & Complexity to Increase in Evolutionary Systems/2019/07/23/book-review-biologys-first-law-the-tendency-for-diversity-complexity-to-increase-in-evolutionary-systems/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Sun, 23 Mar 2025 10:51:53 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Book review – Selfish Genes to Social Beings: A Cooperative History of Life | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/07/23/book-review-biologys-first-law-the-tendency-for-diversity-complexity-to-increase-in-evolutionary-systems/comment-page-1/#comment-95208Sun, 23 Mar 2025 10:51:53 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3611#comment-95208[…] of complexity” (p. 190). Where some have argued that increased complexity over time requires a new biological law, cooperation leading to major transitions offers an alternative […]

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]]>By: Frontdaciência lança último episódio da temporada 14 — UFRGS | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul/2019/07/23/book-review-biologys-first-law-the-tendency-for-diversity-complexity-to-increase-in-evolutionary-systems/comment-page-1/#comment-94647Wed, 13 Dec 2023 05:22:30 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3611#comment-94647[…] 2010, Daniel McShea e Robert Brandon propõem, no livro "A primeira Lei da Biologia", a ZFEL. Os autores questionam como surge a complexidade, quão espontaneamente cresce a […]

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]]>By: Book review – Quarks to Culture: How We Came to Be | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/07/23/book-review-biologys-first-law-the-tendency-for-diversity-complexity-to-increase-in-evolutionary-systems/comment-page-1/#comment-8824Fri, 03 Apr 2020 19:23:42 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3611#comment-8824[…] ones, such as The Major Transitions in Evolution, The Major Transitions in Evolution Revisited, or Biology’s First Law: The Tendency for Diversity & Complexity to Increase in Evolutionary S…. Some say it is energy, others that it is information. “No, physics is life’s silent […]

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]]>By: Book review – Good Enough: The Tolerance for Mediocrity in Nature and Society | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/07/23/book-review-biologys-first-law-the-tendency-for-diversity-complexity-to-increase-in-evolutionary-systems/comment-page-1/#comment-5209Thu, 08 Aug 2019 13:52:24 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3611#comment-5209[…] that parallels Brandon & McShea’s Zero-Force Evolutionary Law (see my recent review of Biology’s First Law: The Tendency for Diversity & Complexity to Increase in Evolutionary S…), Milo argues for a change in perspective. Rather than assuming function to be the default, […]

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