@article {Sewell:2017:0836-1398:70,
title = "On compensating entropy decreases",
journal = "Physics Essays",
parent_itemid = "infobike://pe/pe",
publishercode ="pe",
year = "2017",
volume = "30",
number = "1",
publication date ="2017-03-22T00:00:00",
pages = "70-74",
itemtype = "ARTICLE",
issn = "0836-1398",
eissn = "2371-2236",
url = "https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pe/pe/2017/00000030/00000001/art00010",
doi = "doi:10.4006/0836-1398-30.1.70",
keyword = "Evolution, Second Law of Thermodynamics, Entropy",
author = "Sewell, Granville",
abstract = "The compensation" argument, widely used to dismiss the claim that evolution violates the more general statements of the second law of thermodynamics, is based on the idea that there is a single quantity called entropy" which measures disorder of all types. This
article shows that there is no such total entropy, and that the compensation argument is not a valid way to dismiss the claim that evolution violates the second law. Note that the article does not argue that evolution violates the second law, only that the compensation argument is logically
invalid.",
}