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Colloquium paper: bioenergetics, the origins of complexity, and the ascent of man.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 11 May 2010

Wallace Douglas C

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Complex structures are generated and maintained through energy flux. Structures embody information, and biological information is stored in nucleic acids. The progressive increase in biological complexity over geologic time is thus the consequence of the information-generating power of energy flow plus the information-accumulating capacity of DNA, winnowed by natural selection. Consequently, the most important...

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PMID: 20445102
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0914635107
PMCID: PMC3024017

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