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Physical Approaches to Biological Evolution

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Biologically Inspired Physics

Part of the book series: NATO ASI Series ((NSSB,volume 263))

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There are physicists and biologists who consider physics and biology as incompatible fields of knowledge. Some years ago B.-O. Küppers edited a collection of papers1. This interesting book contains an old paper of Niels Bohr, who wrote about the complementarity of studies of an organism based on atomicmolecular treatment and of the studies of an organism as a whole entity. However at the end of his life Bohr considered this complementarity not as a fundamental principle but only as a practical one2. Polanyi emphasized the important role of information in biological phenomena but considered this notion as something alien to physics3. Heitler wrote about complementarity of living and non-living matter4, Elsässer5 and Wigner6 tried to introduce the so-called biotonic laws, which have nothing to do with physics, but are characteristic of life.

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Volkenstein, M.V. (1991). Physical Approaches to Biological Evolution. In: Peliti, L. (eds) Biologically Inspired Physics. NATO ASI Series, vol 263. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9483-0_28

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