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Mathematics of Evolution Subsequent Edition

by Fred Hoyle (Author)

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About the Author
Sir Fred has had a distinguished carreer as a theoretical physicist, writer and researcher. He has authored hundreds of technical articles, as well as textbooks, popular accounts of science, science fiction, and two autobiograqphies. His honors and accomplishments include

Plumian professor of astronomy and experimental philosophy,
Cambridge University, 1958
Founded and became first Director of the Cambridge Institute of Theretical Astronomy, 1967
Knighted, 1972
Awarded the Crafoord prize for basic science, 1997.

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ISBN-10

0966993403
ISBN-13

978-0966993400
Edition

Subsequent
Publisher

Acorn Enterprises Llc
Publication date

October 1, 1999
Language

English
Dimensions

6.25 x 0.5 x 9.5 inches
Print length

142 pages
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Fred Hoyle's longtime friend George Carson urged Hoyle to write this book. Carson was a biologist who thought that neo-Darwinian evolution needed to be mathematically analyzed, and he knew that Hoyle was capable of doing the job. But Hoyle was preoccupied with cosmology and astronomy at the time. Only later he did turn his attention to biology. In collaboration with his former student, astronomer Chandra Wickramasinghe, he studied evidence for organic compounds in space. This work beginning in the early 1970s, and his correspondence with J.B.S. Haldane reopened Hoyle's interest in biology. In 1986, Hoyle finally did the mathematical study that Carson had urged him to do. He dedicated the book to Carson's memory. But, except for a few facsimile copies of Hoyle's manuscript, the book was not published. Now Hoyle has updated the text and written a Foreword for the publication on January 1st, 1999.

Fred Hoyle has made a good living by writing about science in a simple and comprehensible style. He retains this style in Mathematics of Evolution. The interested reader will be rewarded with a new perspective on neo-Darwinian evolution.

About the Author

Professor Hoyle has had a distinguished career as a theoretical physicist, writer and researcher. At the University of Cambridge, he was a lecturer in mathematics for eleven years before he was made Plumian professor of astronomy and experimental philosophy in 1958. He founded and was the first director of the Cambridge Institute of Theoretical Astronomy in 1967, was named an associate member of the American National Academy of Sciences in 1969, and has been an honorary professorial fellow at University College, Cardiff since 1976. He has been awarded many honors and was knighted in 1972. Sir Fred Hoyle has shown himself to be a gifted scientist and writer who is willing to address funda mental problems and to challenge established ideas in science.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Acorn Enterprises Llc; Subsequent edition (October 1, 1999)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 142 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0966993403
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0966993400
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 0.5 x 9.5 inches

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The Professor

a goldmine of information

Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2008

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Sir Fred Hoyle was a professor at Cambridge for much of his career. He is a best selling author who has also widely published in the peer reviewed literature, and a recipient of numerous honors, including knighthood in 1792. He has produced an excellent work on, in his words, why Darwinian theory is wrong. Hoyle stresses his motive to reject Darwinism is not religious (he became an atheist as a young man and explains why in some detail on page XV), but rather because he concluded that Darwinism is an impediment to discovering the correct theory of our origins. He does not deny the paleontological evidence, but rather the core Darwinism theory, the idea that all life evolved from organic molecules by the selection of, ultimately, favorable mutations; the goo to you by way of the zoo theory. In this work he explains in mathematical detail why he rejects Darwinism for scientific reasons, and discuses briefly other theories of origins, such as the conclusion that all, or most, genes in present day organisms already existed in metazoans in the Cambrian. The problem is the alternative theories proposed by Hoyle and others are even more problematic than Neo-Darwinism. This is why they have been rejected by most scientists. The alternative theories are not the focus of the book, though, but the lethal problems of Darwinism are, and Hoyle does a masterful job of documenting them. Much of the work in this book is on mutations and why this event is not a viable source of significant new genetic information. One must have some understanding of math to follow the arguments, but it is well worth it to wade through the math to understand Hoyle's arguments. He adds a bit of humor in places which, for those whose math background stopped at undergraduate calculus, helps to get through the book. My only problem with the book was I noticed about two dozen typo errors, but as I have a copy of the first printing, they may have been corrected in the later printings.

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DeborahKeys

apparently ignores 100 years of mathematical evolution

Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2014

I haven't read the book. However, its basic premise that "neo-darwinian evolution needed to be analyzed mathematically" ignores the fact that there is a huge literature on the mathematics of population genetics and evolution that goes back prior to the early 1900's. I can match this one prominent physicist with hundreds of prominent mathematicians and statisticians who have worked on this for more than 100 years. Anyone who can write a book without taking all of this knowledge into account should not be trusted.

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Babak Makkinejad

Hard to Follow

Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2012

Even with a background in theoretical physics, I struggled to follow the mathematical arguments of this book. One has to have a good grasp of mathematical statistics to follow this book's mathematical reasoning. On the other hand, the conclusions are quite clear; speciation cannot be supported within these models but minor variations can.

The author does mention the idea of punctuated equilibrium but points out the absence of plausible mechanisms for it. He then proceeds to mention his hypothesis of "Evolution from Space" (his book, "Cosmic Life Force" goes into more detail) as a possible mechanism; that is, genetic fragments are constantly falling to Earth from outer space and getting incorporated into DNA of various species - sort of like the novel "The Einstein Intersection" by Samuel R. Delany.

I think the book is worth reading and struggling through; it is a very dense introduction to mathematical genetics and has a good discussion of the short-comings of standard Darwinism.

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Barry E. DiGregorio

An Important Work Opposing Darwinian Evolutionary Theory

Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 1999

Is the cosmos eternal? Was the Big Bang only a small burp in a much larger unseen structure that is continually being recycled thoughout eternity? If so, this leads us to the more profound questions of: Has life always co-existed with inanimate matter? Is the universe filled with the seeds of life which literally rain down upon newly formed planets in all of the solar systems of the observable universe? Does Darwinian evolution explain how life on the Precambrian Earth seemingly was already well evolved even before the end of the late bombardment period?
These and other interesting questions have been the life work of Sir Fred Hoyle. In his book "Mathematics of Evolution" Hoyle attempts to explain through the use of mathematical formulas the complexities within the Darwinian theory of evolution and why it cannot be correct.
While the "Mathematics of Evolution" contains an astrophysicist look at the equations of living systems, there is a good deal of text throughout, allowing the reader not familiar with such complex equations to follow along.
Hoyle presents a convincing scientific case against Darwinian evolution that demands peer review.
Brig Klyce, of the now famous COSMIC ANCESTRY internet web site, has done evolutionary science a grand service by publishing "Mathematics of Evolution" the first in a new series of books that will examine in detail the origins of life in the universe. Brig Klyce's Acorn Enterprises is a publishing house to watch for in the years ahead.

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