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Nonequilibrium thermodynamics, dissipative structures, and biological order

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This article is based in part on a series of lectures presented by G. Nicolis at the Advanced School for Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Austin, Texas, 1970.

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Turner, J.S. (1974). Nonequilibrium thermodynamics, dissipative structures, and biological order. In: Ehlers, J., et al. Lectures in Statistical Physics. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 28. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0008858

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