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FOLLOWING the recent correspondence between Wool-house1 and Popper2 concerning the apparently low entropy of biological systems, Campbell3 suggests that this low entropy can be achieved by an entropy pump, which he describes and then identifies with the mechanism of natural selection. The purpose of this communication is to propose a very different role for natural selection, which is still controlled by natural selection.
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WILSON, J. Increasing Entropy of Biological Systems. Nature 219, 534–535 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/219534a0
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