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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: England, Jeremy L.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Institute of Physics (AIP) 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/90392
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8414-3153

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