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ArticleInterface focus2023

Chiral conformity emerges from the least-time free energy consumption.

Arto Annila

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Article in Interface focus, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Evolution expresses the second law of thermodynamics in action.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Arto AnnilaDepartment of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.ORCID 0000-0003-2955-2389

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The prevalence of chirally pure biological polymers is often assumed to stem from some slight preference for one chiral form at the origin of life. Likewise, the predominance of matter over antimatter is presumed to follow from some subtle bias for matter at the dawn of the universe. However, rather than being imposed from the start, handedness standards in societies emerged to make things work. Since work is the universal measure of transferred energy, it is reasoned that standards at all scales and scopes emerge to consume free energy. Free energy minimization, equal to entropy maximization, turns out to be the second law of thermodynamics when derived from statistical physics of open systems. This many-body theory is based on the atomistic axiom that everything comprises the same fundamental elements known as quanta of action; hence, everything follows the same law. According to the thermodynamic principle, the flows of energy

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chiralityentropyfree energynatural selectionstatistical physicssymmetry

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PMID37065265
PMCPMC10102724

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