Scientific élan vital: Entropy deficit or inhomogeneity as a unified concept of driving forces of life in hierarchical biosphere driven by photosynthesis

Entropy

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 233-251

  Sato, Naoki ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

lan vital; Entropy deficit; Information; Inhomogeneity; Photosynthesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861133137     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10994300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/e14020233     Document Type: Article

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