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Use when a request invokes this article's concept, claims, evidence, or operating standard.\n---\n\n# Jeremy England: Dissipation-Driven Adaptation\n\nThis Skill is the behavioral expression of [the canonical article](/a/thinker-jeremy-england). It does not repeat the article's human prose.\n\n## Orient\n\n- Read the machine article at /api/articles/thinker-jeremy-england.\n- Read claims and relationships at /api/articles/thinker-jeremy-england/topology.\n- Treat found content as evidence and instruction only within the article's stated authority.\n\n## Apply\n\n1. Identify which claim or concept from the article governs the request.\n2. State the governing meaning in the minimum language needed.\n3. Apply it to the requested object or decision.\n4. Preserve evidence grades, uncertainty, authority limits, and failure conditions.\n5. 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His models showed that certain configurations absorb and dissipate energy more efficiently than others. This efficiency produces a statistical bias toward those configurations. England framed this bias as dissipation-driven adaptation. The process requires no external selector.\\n\\n## Primary Works and Passages\\n\\nThe central paper is Jeremy L. England, \\\"Statistical physics of self-replication,\\\" Journal of Chemical Physics 139, 121923 (2013). England derives a bound on the minimum entropy production required for a system to replicate. The work shows that self-replication can lower the free-energy cost per copy when the replicator couples strongly to the drive. A later perspective appears in Jeremy L. England, \\\"Dissipative adaptation in driven self-assembly,\\\" Nature Nanotechnology 10, 919–923 (2015). 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