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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 Scaling Laws

The number four permeated all o these scaling laws is, although this is fantastic for a physicist, there's a true universality. For hot rates, they decrease according to taking the square root twice. And and so it is with many other things. I mean, you realize that whatever the underlying mechanism is, it must transcend the evolved design. It's true for plants, trees, it's true for mammals, it'strue for birds, insects and so forth.

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