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Patrick B. Warren

Daresbury LaboratoryORCID 0000-0002-0189-2704Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Why Life is Hot

Tanja Schilling, Patrick B. Warren, Wilson C. K. Poon

The paper shows that cellular chemical reaction networks achieve fitness optimization by coupling to out-of-equilibrium reservoirs, leading to significant heat dissipation, and argues that life is hot due to this mechanism.

bioRxiv · Sep 19, 2026 · PreprintBiophysics