entropy and life

Much writing and research has been devoted to the relationship between the thermodynamic quantity entropy and the evolution of life. In 1910, American historian Henry Adams printed and distributed to university libraries and history professors the small volume A Letter to American Teachers of History proposing a theory of history based on the second law of thermodynamics and the principle of entropy. The 1944 book What is Life? by Nobel-laureate physicist Erwin Schrödinger served largely to stimulate this research. In this book, Schrödinger states that life feeds on negative entropy, or negentropy as it is sometimes called. Recent writings have utilized the concept of Gibbs free energy to elaborate on this issue.
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