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I believe I might have been the first person to correctly analyse the thermodynamics of evolution by natural selection: http://thinkinghard.com/evolution/2ndlaw.html (originally http://web.archive.org/web/19961221074218/http://www.xmissio...).

Unfortunately, people often get credit for popularizing ideas rather than being the first to conceive of them.

Wait, what do you think of Schrödinger's use of "negentropy" in "What is Life?" (1944), then?.