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The review presents arguments emphasizing the importance of using the entropic measure of time (EMT) in the study of irreversible evolving systems. The possibilities of this measure for obtaining the laws of system evolution are shown. It is demonstrated that EMT provides a novel and unified perspective on the principle of maximum entropy production (MEPP), which is established in the physics of irreversible processes, as well as on the laws of growth and evolution proposed in biology. Essentially, for irreversible processes, the proposed approach allows, in a certain sense, to identify concepts such as the duration of existence, MEPP, and natural selection. EMT has been used to generalize prior results, indicating that the intrinsic time of a system is logarithmically dependent on extrinsic (Newtonian) time.
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Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300), an international and interdisciplinary journal of entropy and information studies, publishes reviews, regular research papers and short notes. Our aim is to encourage scientists to publish as much as possible their theoretical and experimental details. There is no restriction on the length of the papers. If there are computation and the experiment, the details must be provided so that the results can be reproduced.
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