“The ideas of nonequilibrium order and of the search for stability extend Darwin’s concept back to the prebiotic stage by redefining the “fittest.””

— Ilya Prigogine

Part 2; Cited in: Evgenii Rudnyi (2013).
Thermodynamics of Evolution (1972)

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physical chemist 1917–2003

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