One very interesting short book on Physics and the Life Sciences is What is Life by Erwin Schrdinger. He wrote it during the second world war and it was presented as lectures. It is quite imaginative and Crick/Watson, the originators of the double helix structure of DNA, acknowledge their indebtedness to it. It is not a cosmology book but is an imaginative connection between physics and biology by one of the great pioneers of quantum physics. It is available as a free downoad. See attachment although there are many other versions

http://whatislife.stanford.edu/LoCo_files/What-is-Life.pdf

Here you can find part of what you are searching. The first paper concerns the criterion of order generation far from equilibrium.

The solution was possible thanks to the definition of a Wigner-like probability distribution by the stochastic hydrodynamic Analogy of Madelung (2 nd paper): the solution of the Quantum to classical transition brings also the understanding of generation of order far from equilibrium and, hence, the generation of life.

Article Far from Equilibrium Maximal Principle Leading to Matter Sel...

Second paper

Article Can fluctuating quantum states acquire the classical behavio...

see arXiv 1311.6328 quant-ph.