A theory of pragmatic information and its application to the quasi-species model of biological evolution

BioSystems

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 105-119

  Weinberger, Edward D ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b Blumenthal Associates Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Biological evolution; Pragmatic information; Quasi species model; Semantic information

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION;

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; INFORMATION; MODEL; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0036706621     PISSN: 03032647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-2647(02)00038-2     Document Type: Article

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