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Thermodynamic selection: mechanisms and scenarios
S. G. Babajanyan, E. V. Koonin, A. E. Allahverdyan
Thermodynamic selection is an indirect competition between agents feeding on the same energy resource and obeying the laws of thermodynamics. We examine scenarios of this selection…
Thermodynamics of Evolution and the Origin of Life
Vitaly Vanchurin, Yuri I. Wolf, Eugene V. Koonin +1
We outline a phenomenological theory of evolution and origin of life by combining the formalism of classical thermodynamics with a statistical description of learning. The maximum…
Towards a Theory of Evolution as Multilevel Learning
Vitaly Vanchurin, Yuri I. Wolf, Mikhail I. Katsnelson +1
We apply the theory of learning to physically renormalizable systems in an attempt to develop a theory of biological evolution, including the origin of life, as multilevel learning…
Alternating active-dormitive strategy enables overtaking by disadvantaged prey through Parrondo's paradox
Tao Wen, Eugene V. Koonin, Kang Hao Cheong
Dormancy is a costly adaptive strategy that is widespread among living organisms inhabiting diverse environments. We explore mathematical models of predator-prey systems, in order…
Punctuated equilibrium as the default mode of evolution of large populations on fitness landscapes dominated by saddle points in the weak-mutation limit
Yuri Bakhtin, Mikhail I. Katsnelson, Yuri I. Wolf +1
Punctuated equilibrium is a mode of evolution in which phenetic change occurs in rapid bursts that are separated by much longer intervals of stasis during which mutations accumulat…
The sounds of science: a symphony for many instruments and voices
Gerianne Alexander, Roland E. Allen, Anthony Atala +15
This paper is a celebration of the frontiers of science. Goodenough, the maestro who transformed energy usage and technology through the invention of the lithium ion battery, opens…