Natural selection: a phase transition?
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Information has two aspects: a quantity to be called 'extent' and a quality which may be termed 'content' since it deals with meaning. The latter originates via selective self-organization, which can be described also in quantitative physical terms. A prerequisite is the reproducibility of the informational substrate forming the basis of selection. This paper focuses on selection being the analogue of a physical phase transition. In Section 1 the criteria for phase transitions are formulated. Section 2 introduces the concept of information space and describes information as selected points or regions in this space. In Section 3 selection is analyzed in terms of the criteria for phase transitions, and in Section 4 the concept is confronted with experimental data. The conclusion is reached that information content is generated via selection, which can be described as a phase transition in information space.
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Several well-known examples of evolutionary innovations seem to be associated with a symmetry-breaking event, including the transition from 'pre-volution' to evolution, natural selection, the universality of intermediate metabolism, and the origin of chirality.
“Several well-known examples of evolutionary innovations seem to be associated with a symmetry-breaking event. These include, for example, the transition from ‘pre-volution’ to evolution [376], natural selection [377], the universality of intermediate metabolism [86,98] as well as the origin of chirality (figure 10b) [378–380]”
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- Authors
- Eigen, M.
- Affiliations
- Max Planck Society (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Eigen, Manfred
- Venue
- Biophysical Chemistry
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2000-07
- Volume
- 85
- Issue
- 2-3
- Pages
- 101-123
- ISSN
- 0301-4622 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1964549964
- Cited by
- 86
- References
- 53
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 1 · 2017: 7 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 5 · 2013: 3 · 2012: 4
- FWCI
- 4.07
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Biophysical Chemistry (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (submittedVersion)
- MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Statistical and Nonlinear Physics › Complex Systems and Dynamics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Philosophy and History of Science
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
- Keywords
- natural selection, phase transitions, information content, information space, self-organization
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