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Biology is a constructive physics

Populations and Evolution 2018-08-14 v4 Statistical Mechanics Information Theory math.IT

Abstract

Yuri Manin's approach to Zipf's law (Kolmogorov complexity as energy) is applied to investigation of biological evolution. Model of constructive statistical mechanics where complexity is a contribution to energy is proposed to model genomics. Scaling laws in genomics are discussed in relation to Zipf's law. This gives a model of Eugene Koonin's Third Evolutionary Synthesis (physical model which should describe scaling in genomics).

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@article{arxiv.1804.10518,
  title  = {Biology is a constructive physics},
  author = {S. V. Kozyrev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.10518},
  year   = {2018}
}

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