E. O. Wiley
(1944-)
E. O. Wiley is professor of systematics and evolution for the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Kansas and curator emeritus of ichthyology at the University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute.
With
Daniel Brooks, he wrote the influential 1980 book,
Evolution as Entropy: Toward a Unified Theory of Biology , which appeared to identify Evolution with Entropy!
The second edition of their book (1988)appeared the same year as the second edition of a controversial book by
David Depew and
Bruce Weber, titled
Entropy, Information, and Evolution: New Perspectives on Physical and Biological Evolution.
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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