Change: Evolution of Living Beings(Appendix 1: "thermostat"). Commack, New York: Nova Science Publishers. On Thermodynamics, Entropy and Evolution of Biological Systems - What is Life from a Physical Chemist's Point of ViewReferences1. Discussions between Georgi Gladyshev and Libb Thims in Chicago on Dec. 17, 2007.   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 817)

Change:  Using the law of temporal hierarchies, Gladyshev for the first time has strictly proved a possibility to apply the methods of the classical thermodynamics (the   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 796)

Change:  As a general rule, according to Gladyshev, the higher the hierarchy, the smaller the energy of interaction between the particles. [1] Overview The justification of this statement is connected with the phenomenon of metabolism and the   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 589)

Change: the relaxation to equilibrium. Further reading Gladyshev, Georgi. (1999). "Thermodynamic Theory of Biological Evolution and Aging (Experimental Confirmation for Theory)" [PDF]. Entropy, 1, 55-68. On Thermodynamics, Entropy and Evolution of Biological Systems - What is Life from a Physical Chemist's Point of View   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 553)

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Change: Where ti is the average lifetime of the molecular structures of the lower temporal hierarchical level and ti+1 is the average lifetime of molecular structures   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 522)