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From the following scientific article : Scientists, philosophers identify nature's missing evolutionary law

Source : Science Daily — October 16, 2023 in Carnegie Science Earth and Planets Laboratory

Summary and quotes :

A new article describes 'a missing law of nature,' recognizing for the first time an important norm within the natural world's workings.  In essence, the new law states that complex natural systems evolve to states of greater patterning, diversity, and complexity. In other words, evolution is not limited to life on Earth, it also occurs in other massively complex systems, from planets and stars to atoms, minerals, and more. 

Regardless of whether the system is living or nonliving, when a novel configuration works well and function improves, evolution occurs.

"We contend that Darwinian theory is just a very special, very important case within a far larger natural phenomenon. The notion that selection for function drives evolution applies equally to stars, atoms, minerals, and many other conceptually equivalent situations where many configurations are subjected to selective pressure."

Life shares certain conceptual equivalencies with other complex evolving systems, but the authors point to a future research direction, asking if there is something distinct about how life processes information on functionality.   

So, put into pictures, knowing that complex systems from planets and stars are subjected to selective pressure and share complex similarities with evolving life, even if they are still considered nonliving...

Do they speak ? 

And what about that ?

Or this (from WASP-76b, see here) ?

Or even that ?

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