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q-bio.OT2003
Why humans die -- an unsolved biological problem
Mark Ya. Azbel'
Mortality is an instrument of natural selection. Evolutionary motivated theories imply its irreversibility and life history dependence. This is inconsistent with mortality data for…
cond-mat.stat-mech2003
Long range interaction yields a new kind of phase transition
Mark Ya. Azbel'
DNA denaturation, wetting in two dimensions, depinning of a flux line, and other problems map onto a phase transition with effective long range interaction. It yields giant non-uni…
cond-mat.stat-mech2003
Biological universality yields new kind of laws
Mark Ya. Azbel'
Biological approximations, which are universal for diverse species, are well known. With no other experimental data, their invariance to transformations from one species to another…