Life evolved on our planet by means of a combination of Darwinian selection and innovations leading to higher levels of complexity. The emergence and selection of replicating entities is a central problem in prebiotic ...

Multicellular entities are characterized by intricate spatial patterns, intimately related to the functions they perform. These patterns are often created from isotropic embryonic structures, without external information ...

This thesis aims at establishing the basis for a statistical physics theory of major evolutionary transitions. Its structure is based on three major pillars: nonequilibrium thermodynamics and information theory, stochastic ...