Evolutionary change and adaptation as non-equilibrium thermodynamic processes.

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We recast evolutionary change and adaptation in a phenomenological non-equilibrium thermodynamics framework by defining evolutionary forces and their conjugate fluxes. The central quantity in this context is entropy production, defined specifically for dynamic evolutionary processes within populations. The outcomes of our framework show that the total entropy production in a population splits into three...

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