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On the Statistical Mechanics of Life: Schrödinger Revisited

We study the statistical underpinnings of life, in particular its increase in order and complexity over evolutionary time. We question some common assumptions about the thermodynamics of life. We recall that contrary to widespread belief, even in a closed system entropy growth can accompany an incre...

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Autores principales: Jeffery, Kate, Pollack, Robert, Rovelli, Carlo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7514554/
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e21121211