The Darwin-Lotka energy law is a coinage of ecologist Howard T. Odum. It appears in his book Environment, Power, and Society, possibly elsewhere. In its brief form: the maximization of power for useful purposes is the criterion for natural selection.

Darwin's theory of evolution then becomes a general energy law....

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