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Big Ideas: The Origin of Life

Simplifying Complexity

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Exploring Scaling, Redundancy, and Assembly in Complex Systems

Exploring scaling in mammals by discussing redundancy and modularity in complex systems, highlighting similarities across species despite external differences. Assembly theory is introduced to show objects being built from elementary parts with different evolutionary depths and copy numbers.

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