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Why did life emerge?
Arto Annila, Erkki Annila
Many mechanisms, functions and structures of life have been unraveled. However, the fundamental driving force that propelled chemical evolution and led to life has remained obscure…
Space, time and machines
Arto Annila
The 2nd law of thermodynamics is used to shed light on present-day puzzles in cosmology. The universal law, given as an equation of motion, describes diverse systems when consuming…
Physical portrayal of computational complexity
Arto Annila
Computational complexity is examined using the principle of increasing entropy. To consider computation as a physical process from an initial instance to the final acceptance is mo…
Cause of Chirality Consensus
Salla Jaakkola, Vivek Sharma, Arto Annila
Biological macromolecules, proteins and nucleic acids are composed exclusively of chirally pure monomers. The chirality consensus appears vital for life and it has even been consid…
Roots of diversity relations
Peter Wurtz, Arto Annila
The species-area relationship is one of the central generalizations in ecology however its origin has remained a puzzle. Since ecosystems are understood as energy transduction syst…