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Biological grand universality and its physical challenge

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  • Azbel′, Mark Ya.

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Presented quantitative laws of metabolism, mortality and evolution are valid for animals from bacteria to mammals and demonstrate grand universality in biology. Its microscopic origin may be a physical and mathematical challenge. Natural evolution is accurately reduced to the continuous one, “weak” and “strong” Gould-Eldredge spurts. The discovery of writing, i.e. non-genetic, long range, collective information transfer from generation to generation with human rather than natural selection, leads to post-evolution. Technological post-evolution is exponentially rapid and may lead to the extinction of a civilization. This might resolve the Fermi-Hart paradox: if extra-terrestrial intelligence exists, why it cannot be contacted?

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  • Azbel′, Mark Ya., 1999. "Biological grand universality and its physical challenge," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 273(3), pages 486-494.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:273:y:1999:i:3:p:486-494
    DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(99)00292-7
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