Emergence of Thermodynamics from Darwinian Dynamics

TL;DR

This paper explores how thermodynamics can emerge from Darwinian dynamics, highlighting the connection between stochastic evolutionary processes and conservative physical systems.

Contribution

It provides a quantitative framework linking nonequilibrium Darwinian dynamics to classical thermodynamics, bridging biology and physics.

Findings

Demonstrates the emergence of thermodynamic principles from stochastic Darwinian processes

Establishes a synthesis between nonequilibrium dynamics and conservative physical systems

Provides a quantitative pathway connecting biological evolution to physical laws

Abstract

Darwinian dynamics is manifestly stochastic and nonconservative, but has a profound connection to conservative dynamics in physics. In the present paper the main ideas and logical steps leading to thermodynamics from Darwinian dynamics are discussed in a quantitative manner. A synthesis between nonequilibrum dynamics and conservative dynamics is outlined.