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A resonance based model of biological evolution

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  • Damasco, Achille
  • Giuliani, Alessandro

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We propose a coarse grained physical model of evolution. The proposed model ‘at least in principle’ is amenable of an experimental verification even if this looks as a conundrum: evolution is a unique historical process and the tape cannot be reversed and played again. Nevertheless, we can imagine a phenomenological scenario tailored upon state transitions in physical chemistry in which different agents of evolution play the role of the elements of a state transition like thermal noise or resonance effects. The abstract model we propose can be of help for sketching hypotheses and getting rid of some well-known features of natural history like the so-called Cambrian explosion. The possibility of an experimental proof of the model is discussed as well.

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  • Damasco, Achille & Giuliani, Alessandro, 2017. "A resonance based model of biological evolution," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 471(C), pages 750-756.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:471:y:2017:i:c:p:750-756
    DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2016.12.016
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