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),
2014-09-26T14:57:00Z.
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