• Title of article

    Biological grand universality and its physical challenge

  • Author/Authors

    Mark Ya. Azbel’، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 1999
  • Pages
    9
  • From page
    486
  • To page
    494
  • Abstract
    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?
  • Journal title
    Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
  • Serial Year
    1999
  • Journal title
    Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
  • Record number

    866216