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I believe I might have been the first person to correctly analyse the thermodynamics of evolution by natural selection: http://thinkinghard.com/evolution/2ndla

I believe I might have been the first person to correctly analyse the thermodynamics of evolution by natural selection: http://thinkinghard.com/evolution/2ndlaw.html http://thinkinghard.com/evolution/2ndlaw.html (originally http://web.archive.org/web/19961221074218/http://www.xmission.com/~gastown/dorrell/therm.htm http://web.archive.org/web/19961221074218/http://www.xmissio...).

outlace 10y ago
Unfortunately, people often get credit for popularizing ideas rather than being the first to conceive of them.
pizza 10y ago
Wait, what do you think of Schrödinger's use of "negentropy" in "What is Life?" (1944), then?.