The Free Energy Requirements of Biological Organisms; Implications for Evolution

Recent advances in nonequilibrium statistical physics have provided unprecedented insight into the thermodynamics of dynamic processes. The author recently used these advances to extend Landauer’s semi-formal reasoning concerning the thermodynamics of bit erasure, to derive the minimal free energy r...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wolpert, David
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: MDPI AG 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/103532