Recent advances in nonequilibrium thermodynamics leads to the conclusion that similar
processes, constrained by the second law of thermodynamics, give rise to the emergence of …

Historical Context Over the last 50 years the extension of thermodynamics to open and far-
from-equilibrium conditions has uncovered the macroscopic mechanisms of self …

This article proposes a thermodynamic paradigm for the development of ecosystems.
Ecosystems are viewed as non-equilibrium structures and processes, open to material and …

Negentropy explored by Schrödinger for saving biology within thermodynamics stands firm
on the perpetual temporal cohesion of material origin. The temporal cohesion refers to the …

Schrödinger [Schrödinger, E., 1944. What is Life? Cambridge University Press, Cambridge]
marvelled at how the organism is able to use metabolic energy to maintain and even …

In the middle of the 19th century, two major scientific theories emerged about the evolution
of natural systems over time. Thermodynamics, as refined by Boltzmann, viewed nature as …

The present work is intended to demonstrate that most of the paradoxes, controversies, and
contradictions accumulated in molecular and cell biology over many years of research can …

The physicochemical basis of biological order is a puzzling problem that has occupied
whole generations of biologists and physicists and has given rise, in the it, to passionate …

The place of living organisms in the natural world is a nearly perennial question in
philosophy and the sciences; how can inanimate matter yield animate beings? A dominant …

We examine the thermodynamic evolution of various evolving systems, from primitive
physical systems to complex living systems, and conclude that they involve similar …