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Living organisms, as well as nonliving nature, obey the same conceptual laws of physics and chemistry. In the author’s opinion, this basic generalization makes it possible to work out a logically integrated approach to understanding the mechanisms of the evolution of living and nonliving matter.
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Original Russian Text © M.V. Krylov, 2011, published in Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2011, Vol. 81, No. 7, pp. 636–641.
Mstislav Vladimirovich Krylov, Dr. Sci. (Biol.), is head of the Laboratory of Protozoology at the RAS Zoological Institute.
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Krylov, M.V. The commonness of evolutionary processes. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 81, 432–436 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S101933161103004X
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