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| | Termodynamic Trends in Biological Evolution |
 | | In this model, the tendency toward a minimum of the specific Gibbs function of the formation of supramolecular structures of living organisms causes variations in the chemical composition and structure of living systems. |
 | | It is shown that, during the course of ontogenesis and phylogenesis, as well as long-lasting stages in the evolution of the organic world, the biosystems (as a result of the thermodynamic direction of evolutionary processes of the formation of supramolecular structures) are enriched with energy-intensive chemical substances, which displace water from these biosystems. |
 | | The biosystem periodically expands and contracts, as it were, absorbing and expelling matter, i.e., it is a living "sponge" functioning against a background of relatively small fluctuations of T, p, concentrations of chemical substances, and other parameters of the relevant thermostat, with regard to some of the averaged values of these parameters. |
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