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Scaling 1: Why do we live longer than mice?

Simplifying Complexity

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Why Aren't I Going to Die in Five to 10 Years?

"Why is it that human beings are destined to live of the order of 100 years, not 1000, 10,000 or a million years?" "I discovered that this actually was a backwater of biology. One of the things that really inspired me was that there was no real theory in the sense of a physics kind of theory," he says.

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