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<p>Communication, one of the most important functions of life, occurs at any spatial scale from the molecular one up to that of populations and ecosystems, and any time scale from that of fast chemical reactions up to that of geological ages. Information theory, a mathematical science of communication initiated by Shannon in 1948, has been very successful in engineering, but biologists ignore it.</p><p>This book aims at bridging this gap. It proposes an abstract definition of information based o
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Gérard Battail (auth.)
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789400770393
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Science, Philosophy, Mathematics
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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