Entropy, externality and human evolution

Giuseppe Iurato; Andrei Yu Khrennikov

doi:10.1016/j.biosystems.2020.104130

Entropy, externality and human evolution

Biosystems. 2020 May:191-192:104130. doi: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2020.104130. Epub 2020 Mar 12.

Authors

Giuseppe Iurato¹, Andrei Yu Khrennikov²

Affiliations

¹ International Center for Mathematical Modeling, Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden. Electronic address: giuseppe.iurato@community.unipa.it.
² International Center for Mathematical Modeling, Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden.

PMID: 32173336
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2020.104130

Abstract

Considering biosphere as a closed thermodynamical system, inside it, biological organisms may be considered as open thermodynamical systems exchanging energy and matter with ecosystem. Making appeal to non-equilibrium thermodynamics, anthropology, biology, sociology and cliodynamics, we discuss, from an interdisciplinary stance, some main moments of human evolution from either the phylogenetic and the ontogenetic standpoint, highlighting the crucial bifurcation which saw the rising of the modern societies with respect to primitive ones.

Keywords: Anthropology; Biology; Entropy; Externality; Human evolution; Knowledge; Neuroendocrinology; Society; Sociology; Time.

MeSH terms

Adaptation, Physiological*
Algorithms*
Animals
Biological Evolution*
Computer Simulation
Ecosystem*
Entropy
Humans
Models, Theoretical*
Population Dynamics
Thermodynamics*