Entropy is also the term used for lost information in information theory.
Entropy is also the term used for lost information in information theory.
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[[Erwin Schrodinger]] applied the concept of entropy to biology in 1956, but few discuss that possibility because it tends to disprove [[evolution|the theory of evolution]].
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[[Erwin Schrodinger]] applied the concept of entropy to biology in 1944, concluding that hereditary carriers had to be small in size and permanent in form. Predating the discovery of [[DNA]] in 1953, this was incompatible with [[evolution]]ary theory.