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The evolution of life is a process in which the structure of the historical boundary conditions played an important rôle. Physics, in contrast, seeks to utilize suitable abstractions of the boundary conditions in order to make predictions, of the greatest possible generality, about the physical structure of real systems. A physical theory is only useful when it leads at least in principle to quantitative and reproducible experiments.
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Küppers, BO. (1983). Systems under Idealized Boundary Conditions. In: Molecular Theory of Evolution. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70544-1_13
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