Scientific Élan Vital: Entropy Deficit or Inhomogeneity as a Unified Concept of Driving Forces of Life in Hierarchical Biosphere Driven by Photosynthesis
Life is considered something different from non-living things, but no single driving force can account for all the different aspects of life, which consists of different levels of hierarchy, such as metabolism, cell physiology, multi-cellular development and organization, population dynamics, ecosys...
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| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2012-02-01
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| Series: | Entropy |
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| Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/14/2/233/ |