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Chris Kempes on The Physical Constraints on Life & Evolution
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Evolution on the Scales That Limit the Physical Limits of Evolution
A.R. Cole and Jeff West wrote a paper on the scales that limit the physical boundaries of evolution. The authors say this is where we zoom out from microbial life to trying to articulate a more general theory of evolution. And so how much of evolution can be explained by thinking about those physical constraints first, when do those physical constraints matter more than all these other processes? They write down a framework really for interpreting when evolution should see a physical constraint.
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