Modern developments in nonequilibrium thermodynamics have significant implications for the origins of life. The reasons for this are closely related to a generalized version of the second law of thermodynamics recently found for entropy production during irreversible evolution of a given system such as self-replicating RNA. This paper is intended to serve as an introduction to these developments.
To Appear in the Canadian Journal of Physics. DOI: 10.1139/cjp-2020-0013
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THERMODYNAMICS AND THE ORIGIN OF LIFE