Thermodynamics of natural selection III: Landauer's principle in computation and chemistry

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 252, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 213-220

  Smith, Eric ^a  

^a SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Carnot cycle; Landauer's principle; Molecular recognition; Natural selection; Thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

ENERGY FLOW; ENTHALPY; ENTROPY; ERROR ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NATURAL SELECTION; PHYSIOLOGY; THERMODYNAMICS;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DECOMPOSITION; ENTHALPY; ENTROPY; HEAT ACCLIMATIZATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NATURAL SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMODYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, CHEMICAL; SELECTION (GENETICS); THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 42749093596     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2008.02.013     Document Type: Article

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