In hmolscience, Hyacinthe Guilleminot (1869-1922) (CR:4) was a French radiochemist, working in the area of plant physiology, noted for []
Overview
In 1919, Guilleminot, in his Matter and Life, outlined some type of force and energy views of evolution, that attracted the attention of Alfred Lotka.
Lotka's 1912 publications, wherein he was using the term "trigger action" to explain the way in which the sight of a predator by the eyes of a prey acts to start the flee reaction, a crude way of explaining activation energy in biological terms, is supposedly related in some way to Guilleminot's Matter and Life. [1]
Guilleminot, according to Lotka (1925), stated something to the effect that the principle of survival of the fittest yields information beyond that attainable by the reasoning of thermodynamics. [2]
References
1. (a) Lotka, Alfred. (1912). “Evolution in Discontinuous Systems” (pg. 71), Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, Vol. 2.
(b) Guilleminot, Hyacinthe. (1919). Matter and Life (La Matiere et la Vie) (pg. 115). Flammarion.
(c) Johnstone, John. (1921). The Mechanism of Life (pg. 49). Liverpool.
2. (a) Lotka, Alfred J. (1922b). “Natural selection as a physical principle” (pdf) (pg. 153), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 8:151–54.
(b) Lotka, Alfred J. (1925). Elements of Physical Biology (republished (Ѻ) as: Elements of Mathematical Biology, which includes: corrections from Lotka’s notes and a completed list of his publications) (pdf) (Ѻ) (txt) (pgs. 357). Dover, 1956.
External links
● Hyacinthe Guilleminot (German → English) – Wikipedia.
