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Mechanism of the Evolutionary Ordering of Biological Systems in Light of Acad. E.M. Galimov’s Theory

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The paper discusses the universal character of E.M. Galimov’s concept in explaining the evolutionary mechanisms of biological systems. The concept is demonstrated to be able to explain not only the origin of life in the initially abiogenic world but also the biological evolution in systems at supra-organism ordering levels of living matter: ecosystems and the biosphere as a whole. The most general relations and trends in the origin of ecosystems are presented, with key characteristics of their stability are discussed, at which an ecosystems minimizes its energy dissipation. E.M. Galimov understood the modern phase of world’s evolution as that involving the ordering of vast masses of material that does no belong to the organic world itself.

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This study was carried out under government-financed research project 0137-2019-0008.

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Moiseenko, T.I. Mechanism of the Evolutionary Ordering of Biological Systems in Light of Acad. E.M. Galimov’s Theory. Geochem. Int. 59, 1077–1082 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016702921110082

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