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Scaling 1: Why do we live longer than mice?

Simplifying Complexity

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The Number of Heartbeats in a Lifetime

Mammals have on average the same number of heartbeats in their life. When we get back to this sort of hard physics view of biology, that seems extraordinary to me. And I thought, my god, this is just exactly the kind of area that I should be thinking about if I'm going to put money where my mouth is and say, let's try a physics approach to this"

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