For decades, a vast majority of biogerontologists assumed that aging is not and cannot be
an adaptation. In recent years, however, several authors opposed this predominant view …

Background & aims Empirical analyses of the data available around the word concluded that
women have longer life span now, when compared to the men. Available literature …

In living systems, entropy is generated as the result of the metabolic activity, most of it is
exported, while only a small fraction is accumulated. Accumulation reveals itself as structural …

While aging research and policy aim to promote 'health'at all ages, there remains no
convincing explanation of what this 'health'is. In this paper, I investigate whether we can find …

What makes living things special is how they manage matter, energy, and entropy. A general
theory of organismal metabolism should therefore be quantified in these three currencies …

The consequences of energy storage in the body as fat and then reusing it in the metabolism
are assessed for seven cases by referring to entropy generation as the criterion for …

This paper addresses a key issue confronting ecological and evolutionary biology, namely
the challenge of a cohesive approach to these fields given significant differences in the …

Abstract Nobel‐winning scientist Erwin Schrödinger in his study “What is life?”(1934)
hypothesized that organisms import energy and export entropy to survive. Since the …

Biothermodynamics may help clinicians to diagnose and cure many medical cases, slow
down ageing, correct malnutrition and repair the distorted tissues. Thermodynamically …

Effects of the pregnancy and the following lactation periods on the lifespan entropy of the
women has been evaluated. In the case of singleton pregnancy, a wealthy woman may …