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    STUDIA GEOGRAPHIA - Issue no. 2 / 2012  
         
  Article:   KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION, HYPERBOLIC GROWTH AND PHASE TRANSITIONS IN BIOSYSTEMS / PRODUCŢIA CUNOAŞTERII, CREŞTEREA HIPERBOLICĂ ŞI TRANZIŢIILE DE FAZĂ ÎN BIOSISTEME:
http://studiageographia.geografie.ubbcluj.ro/docs/file/2_2012/Dolgonosov.pdf.

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Knowledge Production, Hyperbolic Growth and Phase Transitions in Biosystems. The evolution of a global biological community such as the humanity or Earth’s biota is shown to be directly connected with the production and accumulation of valuable information (knowledge) needed for survival. Different ways of knowledge production based on the genetic, neuronal, and external memory types are considered. Common features of these memory types are indicated. It is proved that the growth of community population obeys a hyperbolic law. This law is verified using empirical data on the growth of taxonomic diversity of Earth’s biota during the Phanerozoic, growth of human population during the late stage of anthropogenesis, and growth of the facilities of external memory for the last hundred years of the current informational epoch. We also assessed the moments of changing one dominant memory type into another during the evolution. It is shown that each transition leads to the emergence of a new dominant taxon with development rate three orders of magnitude faster than that before the transition.

Keywords: evolution, information, biota, humanity, hyperbolic growth.

 
         
     
         
         
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