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5 | Geoffrey West on Networks, Scaling, and the Pace of Life

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The average human life span is three billion heartbeats. Bigger animals, whales and elephants, live for much longer than tinier things like mice or squirrels. As an animal gets bigger, it lives longer, but its heart slows down. There's some reason why there's a relationship between how your heart beats, how massive you are, and how long you live.

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