The thermal limits of natural selection.

[Radar]

Philosophically, I feel that entropy can do anything it puts its mind to.

And yet, it always just goes with the flow without putting any work into whatever it does.

I find the second of those more plausible by far. There can be all sorts of random accidents that lead to physical characteristics, they have to be selected, but there is a random factor in there.

I first became aware of the scientific basis for entropy and natural selection at about the same time, and I was impressed by their apparent similarity. They are both sort of inevitable, recursive and fractal seeming. I don't have the facility with maths to prove that they come from the same base, but I think it is highly likely that they do.

In a sense they have common base but mostly in the mathematical language describing them as in both cases it is statistics. This does not mean however, that there is any particular connection between entropy and natural selection. After all, statistics is a very general branch of mathematics and it can be used to model many completely disjoined phenomena.