The Science and Philosophy of the "Thermodynamic School" of Evolution
This paper was written by Jeremy L. England and published in 2013. The abstract states: “Self-replication is a capacity common to every species of living thing, and simple physical intuition dictates that such a process must invariably be fueled by the production of entropy. Here, we undertake to make this intuition rigorous and quantitative by…
This paper was written by R. Morel and George Fleck and published in 2006. It applies the maximum entropy production principle to chemistry. The abstract states: “Classical thermodynamics, based on conservation of matter and energy and on the increase of entropy accompanying every natural event, reliably predicts equilibrium properties of macroscopic systems, regardless of the…
This paper was written by L. M. Martyushev and V. D. Seleznev and published in 2006. The abstract states: “The tendency of the entropy to a maximum as an isolated system is relaxed to the equilibrium (the second law of thermodynamics) has been known since the mid-19th century. However, independent theoretical and applied studies, which…
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