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Biological evolution and statistical physics [PDF]
Advances in Physics, 2001 This review is an introduction to theoretical models and mathematical calculations for biological evolution, aimed at physicists. The methods in the field are naturally very similar to those used in statistical physics, although the majority of publications appeared in biology journals. The review has three parts, which can be read independently.
Drossel, Barbara
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The Biological Frontier of Physics [PDF]
Physics Today, 2006 Problems at the interface between biology and physics offer unique opportunities for physicists to make quantitative contributions to biology. Equally important, they enrich the discipline of physics by challenging its practitioners to think in new ways.
Phillips, Rob, Quake, Stephen R.
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Teaching Biological Physics [PDF]
Physics Today, 2005 Biological physics courses can serve a variety of students, among them life-sciences students who need to understand the role of physical principles in the world of biology.
Goldstein, Raymond E +2 more
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Towards physical principles of biological evolution [PDF]
Physica Scripta, 2017 AbstractBiological systems reach organizational complexity that far exceeds the complexity of any known inanimate objects. Biological entities undoubtedly obey the laws of quantum physics and statistical mechanics. However, is modern physics sufficient to adequately describe, model and explain the evolution of biological complexity?
Katsnelson, Mikhail I. +2 more
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Biological processes and links to the physics [PDF]
Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 2009 Analysis of the temporal and spatial variability of biological processes and identification of the main variables that drive the dynamic regime of marine ecosystems is complex. Correlation between physical variables and long-term changes in ecosystems has routinely been identified, but the specific mechanisms involved remain often unclear.
Alheit +89 more
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, 1998 Major goals of biological physics are the understanding of biological systems in physical terms and the study of concepts and laws of complex systems.
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Physical foundations of biological complexity [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2018 SignificanceLiving organisms are characterized by a degree of hierarchical complexity that appears to be inaccessible to even the most complex inanimate objects. Routes and patterns of the evolution of complexity are poorly understood. We propose a general conceptual framework for emergence of complexity through competing interactions and frustrated ...
Yuri I. Wolf +2 more
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Biological scaling and physics [PDF]
Journal of Biosciences, 2002 Kleiber's law in biology states that the specific metabolic rate (metabolic rate per unit mass) scales as M- 1/4 in terms of the mass M of the organism. A long-standing puzzle is the (- 1/4) power in place of the usual expectation of (- 1/3) based on the surface to volume ratio in three-dimensions.
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From physical to biological individuation
Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, 2016 In this paper, we insist on stressing the epistemic and metaphysical difference between individual and individuation, a distinction originally developed by Gilbert Simondon. Individuation occurs in complex physical systems by the coupling (R1) between the system and its outside conditions. As such the system is not well defined by its sole constituents.
Paul-Antoine Miquel, Su-Young Hwang
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The Hopfield model and its role in the development of synthetic biology [PDF]
, 2007 Neural network models make extensive use of concepts coming from physics and engineering. How do scientists justify the use of these concepts in the representation of biological systems?
Loettgers, Andrea
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