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5 | Geoffrey West on Networks, Scaling, and the Pace of Life

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Scaling Laws of Natural Selection

Natural selection is naturally very lazy, right? It takes what you already a loses. How can i improve things a little bit by tat eat we already you don't reinvent things a priori every time. And the last was taking a real physicist viewpoint, and that is that something is being optimized. You know, e physics ates almost entirely atat almost all levels from optimization principles.

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