Small Open Chemical Systems Theory and Its Implications to Darwinian Evolutionary Dynamics, Complex Self-Organization and Beyond

TL;DR

This paper explores the dynamics of open chemical systems in biological cells, highlighting their complex stochastic and nonlinear behaviors that influence evolution and self-organization.

Contribution

It introduces a theoretical framework for understanding mesoscopic open chemical systems and their implications for Darwinian evolution and complex self-organization.

Findings

Open chemical systems exhibit ultra-fast stochastic fluctuations.

Long-term dynamics include rare events and punctuated equilibria.

Implications for biological evolution and self-organization are discussed.

Abstract

The study of biological cells in terms of mesoscopic, nonequilibrium, nonlinear, stochastic dynamics of open chemical systems provides a paradigm for other complex, self-organizing systems with ultra-fast stochastic fluctuations, short-time deterministic nonlinear dynamics, and long-time evolutionary behavior with exponentially distributed rare events, discrete jumps among punctuated equilibria, and catastrophe.