Evolutionary features in a minimal physical system: diversity, selection, growth, inheritance, and adaptation
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| author | Bunin, Guy Rivoire, Olivier |
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| contents | We present a simple physical model that recapitulates several features of biological evolution, while being based only on thermally-driven attachment and detachment of elementary building blocks. Through its dynamics, this model samples a large and diverse array of non-equilibrium steady states, both within and between independent trajectories. These dynamics exhibit directionality with a quantity that increases in time, selection and preferential spatial expansion of particular states, as well as inheritance in the form of correlated compositions between successive states, and environment-dependent adaptation. The model challenges common conceptions regarding the requirements for life-like properties: it does not involve separate mechanisms for metabolism, replication and compartmentalization, stores and transmits digital information without template replication or assembly of large molecules, exhibits selection both without and with reproduction, and undergoes growth without autocatalysis. As the model is based on generic physical principles, it is amenable to various experimental implementations. |
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| spellingShingle | Evolutionary features in a minimal physical system: diversity, selection, growth, inheritance, and adaptation Bunin, Guy Rivoire, Olivier Populations and Evolution We present a simple physical model that recapitulates several features of biological evolution, while being based only on thermally-driven attachment and detachment of elementary building blocks. Through its dynamics, this model samples a large and diverse array of non-equilibrium steady states, both within and between independent trajectories. These dynamics exhibit directionality with a quantity that increases in time, selection and preferential spatial expansion of particular states, as well as inheritance in the form of correlated compositions between successive states, and environment-dependent adaptation. The model challenges common conceptions regarding the requirements for life-like properties: it does not involve separate mechanisms for metabolism, replication and compartmentalization, stores and transmits digital information without template replication or assembly of large molecules, exhibits selection both without and with reproduction, and undergoes growth without autocatalysis. As the model is based on generic physical principles, it is amenable to various experimental implementations. |
| title | Evolutionary features in a minimal physical system: diversity, selection, growth, inheritance, and adaptation |
| topic | Populations and Evolution |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.03843 |