The ideas of nonequilibrium order and of the search for stability extend Darwin’s concept back to the prebiotic stage by redefining the “fittest”.

— Ilya Prigogine, Thermodynamics of Evolution (1972)

Source: http://blog.rudnyi.ru/2013/04/thermodynamics-of-evolution.html

Cited via Evgenii Rudnyi (2013).

Topics: complexity