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Geoffrey B. West: The Universal Laws of Growth and Pace

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The Scale of Physiological Variables

"The number that is somehow controlling, pervading all of life, is the number four," he says. "I could spend the rest of the evening boring you with 75 or 100 of these kinds of things,. and they all have exactly the same characteristic." He goes on to show a similar scale for genome length as well as heart rate.

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