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Michael Garfield & David Krakauer on Evolution, Information, and Jurassic Park

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The Sublinear Scaling of the Economy of Scale

In biology we have this sublinear scaling this economy of scale would be rather less you need per capita per cell. That leads to finite growth that is organisms typically stop growing after a rapid growth in childhood and they remain stable till they die in roughly. The bigger you are the more per capita more ideas more innovation well per capita and that gives rise to open-ended growth when you put in the same equations.

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