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Life and evolution as physics.

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Bejan, A
Published in: Communicative & integrative biology
May 2016

What is evolution and why does it exist in the biological, geophysical and technological realms - in short, everywhere? Why is there a time direction - a time arrow - in the changes we know are happening every moment and everywhere? Why is the present different than the past? These are questions of physics, about everything, not just biology. The answer is that nothing lives, flows and moves unless it is driven by power. Physics sheds light on the natural engines that produce the power destroyed by the flows, and on the free morphing that leads to flow architectures naturally and universally. There is a unifying tendency across all domains to evolve into flow configurations that provide greater access for movement. This tendency is expressed as the constructal law of evolutionary flow organization everywhere. Here I illustrate how this law of physics accounts for and unites the life and evolution phenomena throughout nature, animate and inanimate.

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Communicative & integrative biology

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1942-0889

ISSN

1942-0889

Publication Date

May 2016

Volume

9

Issue

3

Start / End Page

e1172159

Related Subject Headings

  • Developmental Biology
  • 3102 Bioinformatics and computational biology
  • 0603 Evolutionary Biology
  • 0601 Biochemistry and Cell Biology
 

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Bejan, A. (2016). Life and evolution as physics. Communicative & Integrative Biology, 9(3), e1172159. https://doi.org/10.1080/19420889.2016.1172159
Bejan, Adrian. “Life and evolution as physics.Communicative & Integrative Biology 9, no. 3 (May 2016): e1172159. https://doi.org/10.1080/19420889.2016.1172159.
Bejan A. Life and evolution as physics. Communicative & integrative biology. 2016 May;9(3):e1172159.
Bejan, Adrian. “Life and evolution as physics.Communicative & Integrative Biology, vol. 9, no. 3, May 2016, p. e1172159. Epmc, doi:10.1080/19420889.2016.1172159.
Bejan A. Life and evolution as physics. Communicative & integrative biology. 2016 May;9(3):e1172159.

Published In

Communicative & integrative biology

DOI

EISSN

1942-0889

ISSN

1942-0889

Publication Date

May 2016

Volume

9

Issue

3

Start / End Page

e1172159

Related Subject Headings

  • Developmental Biology
  • 3102 Bioinformatics and computational biology
  • 0603 Evolutionary Biology
  • 0601 Biochemistry and Cell Biology