The principle of substance stability reveals the direction of development of chemical and biological evolution

Abstract

The aim of numerous works of author is the creation of simplified thermodynamic model the origin of life, its evolution and the aging of living beings. During the creation of this model the author has used a variety of approximation and postulates. These approximations and postulates were justified from the standpoint of dynamic quasi-equilibrium hierarchical thermodynamics, which relies on the laws of classical thermodynamics of complex systems and the principle of substance stability. In this paper the author presented the some known evidences of action of the principle of substance stability in chemical and biological systems. The author presented also a new evidence for reaffirmation of this principle when changing the elemental composition of living organisms in the course of biological evolution. There is the local thermodynamic optimization of structures of all hierarchical levels. The variations of habitat and the searches of optimal thermodynamic structures in nature can be comprehended from the perspective of the enlarged understanding of “the variation and the selection” of Ch. Darwin.

Keywords: evolution, thermodynamics, principle of substance stability, selection, life, Darwinism.

 

Epigraphs

The author systematically remembered the statements of famous creators during the creation of theory:

 

“… the simplicity – the only ground on which it is possible to erect a building of generalizations”.

Henri Poincare

 

“If you can’t make a physical model of it, you don’t understand it well enough.”

James Maxwell

 

“One of the principal objects of theoretical research in any department of knowledge is to find the point of view from which the subject appears in its greatest simplicity.”

Willard Gibbs

“… the true and only goal of science is to reveal unity rather than mechanism.”

Henri Poincare

 

“Hierarchical thermodynamics in accordance with the laws of nature creates and optimizes forms and functions of living systems in their habitat. This optimization is connected with the search for minimums of specific Gibbs free energy formation of dynamic structures of all hierarchies.”

Author

 

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