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Scaling 2: You and I are fractals

Simplifying Complexity

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The Shrew Has the Same Cells as the Humans

The study of how complex systems respond to changes in their size. As we make a shrew bigger, what happens to the shrew or if we make a human bigger to be like a bigger mammal? Where we're going to start here, as you said, is with the cells. The shrew has the same cells as the humans as the whales. So that's this incredible starting point, isn't it, Jerry? Yes, absolutely.

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