Statistical physics of self-replication
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 deriving a lower bound for the amount of h...
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American Institute of Physics (AIP)
2014
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/90392 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8414-3153 |