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
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