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Ervin Bauer (1890–1938) outlined the paradigm of theoretical biology from the perspective of biophysics and bioenergetics. His molecular-based biological theory is centered on the principle of sustainable non-equilibrium, which is continuously produced and maintained by all biological systems throughout their life. Ervin Bauer became the victim of Stalin's Great Terror. Here we present two of the fundamental works of Ervin Bauer in English translation: the paper “The definition of living beings on the basis of their thermodynamic properties, and the fundamental biological principles that follow from it” published in Naturwissenschaften (1920) and the excerpts from his magnum opus “Theoretical Biology” (1935). These works became a bibliographical rarity. A complete English translation of “Theoretical Biology” is an important task for the future.
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BioSystems encourages experimental, computational, and theoretical articles that link biology, evolutionary thinking, and the information processing sciences. The link areas form a circle that encompasses the fundamental nature of biological information processing, computational modeling of complex biological systems, evolutionary models of computation, the application of biological principles to the design of novel computing systems, and the use of biomolecular materials to synthesize artificial systems that capture essential principles of natural biological information processing.
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