The Nature of Stability in Replicating Systems

Entropy

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 518-527

  Wagner, Nathaniel ^a   Pross, Addy ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Complexity; Equilibrium; Kinetic stability; Life; Steady state; Teleonomy; Thermodynamic stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881330390     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10994300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/e13020518     Document Type: Review

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