I enjoyed this paper on the relationship between entropy and life – lots of overlap with that article:
"Life and its evolution are time-oriented, irreversible phenomena that have produced a steady increase in complexity over billions of years. The second law of thermodynamics is the only fundamental law in physics that distinguishes the past from the future and so this law, and its statistical underpinning, offer the only physical principle that can govern any macroscopic irreversible phenomenon, including life."
"Life and its evolution are time-oriented, irreversible phenomena that have produced a steady increase in complexity over billions of years. The second law of thermodynamics is the only fundamental law in physics that distinguishes the past from the future and so this law, and its statistical underpinning, offer the only physical principle that can govern any macroscopic irreversible phenomenon, including life."
https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/21/12/1211/htm