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It acknowledges prior hints from Ostwald, Guilleminot, and others but claims priority in systematic application. Reductionist objections note that the maximum-power claim remains interpretive; later reassessments question whether Lotka stated a strict physical law or a heuristic. No quantitative derivation appears here. 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Tier: anecdotal. Source: primary text.\n- Claim c2: Selection functions as a third law by determining end states where thermodynamics alone cannot. Tier: mechanistic. Source: primary text.\n- Claim c3: Living organisms act as autocatalytic energy transformers selected for maximum flux. Tier: anecdotal. Source: primary text.\n- Claim c4: The work bridges energetics to evolutionary patterns via physical principles. Tier: mechanistic. Source: primary text and companion paper.\n- Claim c5: It evidences convergence on flow networks and ordered structures from energy throughput. Tier: speculative. 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