title: The universality and the future prospects of physiological energetics: Reply to comments on "Physics of metabolic organization".
abstract: In response to the comments on review "Physics of metabolic organization", we discuss the universality and the future prospects of physiological energetics. The topics range from the role of entropy in modeling living organisms to the apparent ubiquity of the von Bertalanffy curve, and the potential applications of the theory in yet unexplored domains. Tradeoffs in outreach to non-specialists are also briefly considered.
authors.affiliation: Center of Mathematics for Social Creativity, Hokkaido University, 5-8 Kita Ward, Sapporo 060-0808, Japan. Electronic address: mjusup@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Marko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jusup
authors.affiliation: Maretec, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Rovisco Pais 1, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal.
authors.forename: Tânia
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sousa
authors.affiliation: Maretec, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Rovisco Pais 1, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal.
authors.forename: Tiago
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Domingos
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Rijeka, R. Matejčić 2, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia.
authors.forename: Velimir
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Labinac
authors.affiliation: Department for Marine and Environmental Research, Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Bijenička 54, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
authors.forename: Nina
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Marn
authors.affiliation: Center for OPTical IMagery Analysis and Learning (OPTIMAL), Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, Shaanxi, China.
authors.forename: Zhen
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Department for Marine and Environmental Research, Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Bijenička 54, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
authors.forename: Tin
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Klanjšček
mesh_terms: D019277:Entropy; D006801:Humans; D010825:Physics
keywords: DEB theory; Entropy; Homeostasis; Metabolic acceleration; Von Bertalanffy curve