1. E. Schrödinger, What is Life? (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1944). An excellent study of the thermodynamics and statistical physics of biological systems. Several topics dealt with here remain valid today
2. N. Wiener, Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (MIT Press, 1948). This was a pioneering book on cybernetics, by one of the creators of the field
3. G. Nicholis, I. Prigogine, Self Organization in Non-Equilibrium Systems (Wiley, New York, 1977). The thermodynamics of open systems, like biological systems, is very clearly discussed in this book
4. G. Gamow, W. Brittin, Negative entropy and photosynthesis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 47, 724 (1961). This paper supplies a quantitative argument regarding the role of low entropy sunlight as the mechanism driving the development of biological order
5. R.P. Feynman, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, The Definitive edn., vol. I. (Pearson-Addison Wesley, Reading, 2006). One of the first references in a physics book to the homochirality problem was made in the first edition of this book, in 1965