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Yockey attended the University of California, Berkeley where he was awarded a bachelors in 1938 and a Ph.D. in 1942. In 1946 he married Mary Ann Leach.
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Yockey HP. (1981). "Self organization origin of life scenarios and information theory".
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His wife Mary died in 2006. Yockey died on January 31, 2016, at the age of 99.
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He studied the application of information theory to problems in
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Information Theory, Evolution, and the Origin of Life
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