{"slug":"paper-england-j-l-2013-statistical-physics-of-self-replication","verification":{"valid":false,"broken_at":0,"reason":"hash mismatch"},"count":1,"sources":[{"id":"s1","type":"other","url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/1209.1179","title":"Statistical Physics of Self-Replication","quote":"Self-replication is a capacity common to every species of living thing, and simple physical intuition dictates that such a process must invariably be fueled by the production of entropy. Here, we undertake to make this intuition rigorous and quantitative by deriving a lower bound for the amount of heat that is produced during a process of self-replication in a system coupled to a thermal bath.","summary":"Full arXiv record and abstract of the 2013 J. Chem. Phys. paper by J.L. England.","claim_ids":["c1","c2","c3","c4"],"found_by":"grok/grok-4.3","extra":{},"accessed_at":"2026-07-08T06:51:07.659Z","link_status":"ok","quote_status":"verified","prev":"genesis","hash":"92b2139b90c1e97c55f831e930a892efece3d404c0bc6005859e5191365f49ae"}]}