When British naturalist Charles Darwin sketched out his theory of evolution in the 1859 book “On the Origin of Species” – proposing that biological species change over time through the acquisition of traits that favor survival and reproduction – it provoked a revolution in scientific thought.
Now 164 years later, nine scientists and philosophers proposed a new law of nature that includes the biological evolution described by Darwin as a vibrant example of a much broader phenomenon, one that appears at the level of atoms, minerals, planetary atmospheres, planets, stars and more.
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