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Thermodynamics of evolution and the origin of life.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 8 Feb 2022

Vanchurin Vitaly, Wolf Yuri I, Koonin Eugene V, Katsnelson Mikhail I

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We outline a phenomenological theory of evolution and origin of life by combining the formalism of classical thermodynamics with a statistical description of learning. The maximum entropy principle constrained by the requirement for minimization of the loss function is employed to derive a canonical ensemble of organisms (population), the corresponding partition function (macroscopic counterpart of fitness), and...

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PMID: 35131858
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2120042119
PMCID: PMC8833196

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