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Understanding the molecular basis of evolution is one of the greatest intellectual challenges of mankind, and one where chemistry plays a central role. Recently, a Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Frances H. Arnold and the other half jointly to George P. Smith and Sir Gregory P. Winter for their work harnessing the power of evolution to develop new proteins used in drugs and medical treatments. The second law of thermodynamics holds that all spontaneous processes should increase the entropy of the universe and the molecular interpretation of entropy holds that increasing entropy leads to increasing disorder. However, life requires creating order out of disorder. What  ideas about how the existence of life is compatible with the second law of thermodynamics .

Understanding the molecular basis of evolution is one of the greatest intellectual challenges of mankind, and one where chemistry plays a central role. Recently, a Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Frances H. Arnold and the other half jointly to George P. Smith and Sir Gregory P. Winter for their work harnessing the power of evolution to develop new proteins used in drugs and medical treatments. The second law of thermodynamics holds that all spontaneous processes should increase the entropy of the universe and the molecular interpretation of entropy holds that increasing entropy leads to increasing disorder. However, life requires creating order out of disorder. What  ideas about how the existence of life is compatible with the second law of thermodynamics .

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Understanding the molecular basis of evolution is one of the greatest intellectual challenges of mankind, and one where chemistry plays a central role. Recently, a Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Frances H. Arnold and the other half jointly to George P. Smith and Sir Gregory P. Winter for their work harnessing the power of evolution to develop new proteins used in drugs and medical treatments.

The second law of thermodynamics holds that all spontaneous processes should increase the entropy of the universe and the molecular interpretation of entropy holds that increasing entropy leads to increasing disorder. However, life requires creating order out of disorder. What  ideas about how the existence of life is compatible with the second law of thermodynamics .

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