摘要翻译：
生物系统达到的组织复杂性远远超过任何已知的无生命物体的复杂性。生物实体无疑服从量子物理和统计力学的定律。然而，现代物理学是否足以充分描述、建模和解释生物复杂性的演化？统计热力学和生物进化的群体遗传学理论之间有详细的相似之处。基于这些相似性，我们概述了生物创新和进化中的主要转变的新观点，并引入了反映进化种群创新倾向的热力学势的生物当量。人们认为，生物实体和过程的性质与物理中的受挫状态（如玻璃）的性质之间也存在深刻的类比。我们通过考察挫折类型的现象，如生物进化中不同层次的选择之间的冲突，来扩展这种类比。我们进一步从渗流理论的角度讨论了多维适应度景观中的进化，并提出超过临界阈值的渗流决定了复杂生物的树状进化。总之，物理学和生物学基本过程之间的这些多重联系意味着，构建一个有意义的生物进化物理理论可能不会是徒劳的努力。
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英文标题：
《Towards physical principles of biological evolution》
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作者：
Mikhail I. Katsnelson, Yuri I. Wolf, Eugene V. Koonin
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最新提交年份：
2018
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分类信息：

一级分类：Quantitative Biology        数量生物学
二级分类：Other Quantitative Biology        其他定量生物学
分类描述：Work in quantitative biology that does not fit into the other q-bio classifications
不适合其他q-bio分类的定量生物学工作
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一级分类：Physics        物理学
二级分类：Statistical Mechanics        统计力学
分类描述：Phase transitions, thermodynamics, field theory, non-equilibrium phenomena, renormalization group and scaling, integrable models, turbulence
相变，热力学，场论，非平衡现象，重整化群和标度，可积模型，湍流
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一级分类：Quantitative Biology        数量生物学
二级分类：Populations and Evolution        种群与进化
分类描述：Population dynamics, spatio-temporal and epidemiological models, dynamic speciation, co-evolution, biodiversity, foodwebs, aging; molecular evolution and phylogeny; directed evolution; origin of life
种群动力学；时空和流行病学模型；动态物种形成；协同进化；生物多样性；食物网；老龄化；分子进化和系统发育；定向进化；生命起源
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英文摘要：
  Biological systems reach organizational complexity that far exceeds the complexity of any known inanimate objects. Biological entities undoubtedly obey the laws of quantum physics and statistical mechanics. However, is modern physics sufficient to adequately describe, model and explain the evolution of biological complexity? Detailed parallels have been drawn between statistical thermodynamics and the population-genetic theory of biological evolution. Based on these parallels, we outline new perspectives on biological innovation and major transitions in evolution, and introduce a biological equivalent of thermodynamic potential that reflects the innovation propensity of an evolving population. Deep analogies have been suggested to also exist between the properties of biological entities and processes, and those of frustrated states in physics, such as glasses. We extend such analogies by examining frustration-type phenomena, such as conflicts between different levels of selection, in biological evolution. We further address evolution in multidimensional fitness landscapes from the point of view of percolation theory and suggest that percolation at level above the critical threshold dictates the tree-like evolution of complex organisms. Taken together, these multiple connections between fundamental processes in physics and biology imply that construction of a meaningful physical theory of biological evolution might not be a futile effort.
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PDF链接：
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1709.00284