[Methodological problems of the relation of thermodynamics and biology].
Methodological problems are considered on the relation of thermodynamic principles in systems far from being equilibrium and processes of biological evolution. Attention is paid that these problems are sometimes erroneously interpreted from the standpoint of reducing biology to physics and chemistry. The analysis of the theories under study shows that they reveal concretely the dialectics of biology reducibility and irreducibility to physics and chemistry. A conclusion is made that the notion of "submission of lower forms of the matter to higher ones" which is insufficiently studied in dialectics may be revealed by means of notions of lower forms regulation and control by higher ones.
D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D008433:Mathematics; D008954:Models, Biological; D013816:Thermodynamics
Metodologicheskie voprosy sootnosheniia termodinamiki i biologii.