Here's a list of papers on 1) patterns formed by bacterial colonies; 2)
entropy in evolution. If you have others, please let me know.
Works on Bacterial Patterns & Entropy in Evolution
from Dick Gordon's Bibliography
Ben-Jacob, E., I. Cohen, O. Shochet, I. Aranson, H. Levine & L. Tsimring
(1995). Complex bacterial patterns. Nature 373(6515), 566-567.
Ben-Jacob, E., H. Shmueli, O. Shochet & D. Weiss (1993). Interfacial
pattern formation in biological systems: preliminary observations during
growth of bacterial colonies. In: J.M.G. Ruiz, E. Louis, P. Meakin & L.M.
Sander (eds.), Growth Patterns in Physical Sciences and Biology, New
York: Plenum Publishing Corp., pp. 10-18.
Ben-Jacob, E., O. Shochet, A. Tenenbaum, I. Cohen, A. Czirk & T. Vicsek
(1994). Generic modelling of cooperative growth patterns in bacterial
colonies. Nature 368, 46-49.
Brooks, D.R., J. Collier, B.A. Maurer, J.D.H. Smith & E.O. Wiley (1989).
Entropy and information in evolving biological systems. Biol. Phil. 4,
407-432.
Brooks, D.R., D.D. Cumming & P.H. LeBlond (1988). Dollo's law and the
second law of thermodynamics: analogy or extension. In: B.H. Weber, D.J.
Depew & J.D. Smith (eds.), Entropy, Information, and Evolution,
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, Bradford Books, pp. 189-226.
Brooks, D.R. & E.O. Wiley (1986). Evolution as Entropy, Toward a Unified
Theory of Biology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Brooks, D.R. & E.O. Wiley, (1988). Evolution as Entropy, Toward a
Unified Theory of Biology, (rev. ed.), Chicago: University of Chicago
Press.
Budrene, E.O. & H.C. Berg (1991). Complex patterns formed by motile cells
of Escherichia coli. Nature 349, 630-633.
Campbell, J.H. (1988). Evolution as nonequilibrium thermodynamics:
halfway there? In: B.H. Weber, D.J. Depew & J.D. Smith (eds.), Entropy,
Information, and Evolution, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, Bradford Books, pp.
275-284.
Collier, J. (1986). Entropy in evolution. Biol. Phil. 1(1), 5-24.
Conrad, M. (1974). Thermodynamic correlates of evolution. Biosystems
6(1), 1-15.
Conrad, M. (1982). Bootstrapping model of the origin of life. BioSystems
15, 209-219.
Conrad, M. (1990a). The geometry of evolution. BioSystems 24, 61-81.
Frautschi, S. (1988). Entropy in an expanding universe. In: B.H. Weber,
D.J. Depew & J.D. Smith (eds.), Entropy, Information, and Evolution,
Cambridge: MIT Press, pp. 11-22.
Gordon, R. (1992a). The fractal physics of biological evolution. In: D.
Beysens, N. Boccara & G. Forgacs (eds.), Dynamical Phenomena at
Interfaces, Surfaces and Membranes, Commack, N.Y.: NOVA Science
Publishers, pp. 99-111.
Gordon, R. & R.W. Drum (1994). The chemical basis for diatom
morphogenesis. Int. Rev. Cytol. 150, 243-372, 421-422.
Green, D.M. (1990). Muller's ratchet and the evolution of supernumerary
chromosomes. Genome 33, 818-824.
Green, D.M. (1991a). Chaos, fractals and nonlinear dynamics in evolution
and phylogeny. Trends Ecol. Evol. 6(10), 333-337.
James, G.A., D.R. Korber, D.E. Caldwell & J.W. Costerton (1995). Digital
image analysis of growth and starvation responses of a surface-colonizing
Acinetobacter sp. J. Bacteriol. 177(4), 907-915.
Johnson, L. (1981). The thermodynamic origin of ecosystems. Can. J.
Fisheries Aquatic Sci. 38, 571-590.
Johnson, L. (1988). The thermodynamic origin of ecosystems: a tale of
broken symmetry. In: B.H. Weber, D.J. Depew & J.D. Smith (eds.), Entropy,
Information, and Evolution: New Perspectives on Physical and Biological
Evolution, Cambridge: MIT Press, pp. 75-105.
Johnson, L. (1990a). The thermodynamics of ecosystems. In: O. Hutzinger
(ed.), Handbook of Environmental Chemistry. Vol. 1: The Natural
Environment and Biogeochemical Cycles, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, pp. 1-47.
Johnson, L. (1990b). The far-from-equilibrium ecological hinterlands. In:
B.C. Patten & S.E. Jorgensen (eds.), Complex Ecology, Englewood Cliffs:
Prentice-Hall, pp. in press.
Johnson, L. (1992a). An ecological approach to biosystem thermodynamics.
Phil. Biol. 7, 35-60.
Johnson, L. (1992b). Pattern and process in ecological systems: a step in
the development of a general ecological theory. Can. J. Fisheries Aquatic
Sci. 51(1), 226-246.
Layzer, D. (1988). Growth of order in the universe. In: B.H. Weber, D.J.
Depew & J.D. Smith (eds.), Entropy, Information, and Evolution,
Cambridge: MIT Press, pp. 23-40.
Lipkin, R. (1995b). Bacterial chatter, how patterns reveal cues about
bacteria's chemical communication. Sci. News 147(9), 129, 136-137, 142.
Lipkin, R. (1995e). Stressed bacteria spawn elegant colonies. Science
News 148(11), 167.
Matsushita, M. & et al.? (1989). ? J. Physical Soc. Japan ?(Nov.), ?-?
Olmsted, J. (1988). Observations on evolution. In: B.H. Weber, D.J. Depew
& J.D. Smith (eds.), Entropy, Information, and Evolution: New
Perspectives on Physical and Biological Evolution, Cambridge: MIT Press,
pp. 243-261.
Seielstad, G.A. (1989). At the Heart of the Web: The Inevitable Genesis
of Intelligent Life. Boston: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
Shapiro, J.A. (1992b). Pattern and control in bacterial colony
development. Sci. Prog. 76(301-302 Pt 3-4), 399-424.
Shapiro, J.A. (1995b). The significance of bacterial colony patterns.
BioEssays 17(7), 597-607.
Swenson, R. (1989). Emergent attractors and the law of maximum entropy
production: foundations to a theory of general evolution. Systems Res.
6, 187-197.
Tsimring, L. & H. Levine (1995). ? Physical Rev. Letters ?(Aug. 28), ?-?
Vanriel, P. & L. Johnson (1995). Action principles as determinants of
ecosystem structure: the autonomous lake as a reference system. Ecology
76(6), 1741-1757.
Weber, B.H., D.J. Depew & J.D. Smith (eds.), (1988). Entropy,
Information, and Evolution: New Perspectives on Physical and Biological
Evolution, Cambridge: MIT Press.
Witkowski, J.A. (1986a). Schrodinger's 'What is Life?': entropy, order
and hereditary code-scripts. Trends Biochem. Sci. 11, 266-268.
