RETRACTION article
Front. Complex Syst.
Sec. Complex Systems Theory
Retraction: "Toward a thermodynamic theory of evolution: a theoretical perspective on information entropy reduction and the emergence of complexity"
Provisionally accepted
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Keywords: Biological information processing, complexity emergence, Entropy reduction, Informational entropy, Major evolutionary transitions, nonequilibrium systems, self-organization, thermodynamic evolution
Received: 10 Feb 2026; Accepted: 10 Feb 2026.
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