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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What Is a Scaling Law for Longevity?
When i was stuck on my the physics i was doing, or being slightly depressed about the s s c, i would work on this problem. And one of the s i quickly discovered in the literature were these remarkable scaling laws. A man named max kliber originally had collected this in the thirties and discovered an extraordinary regularity that it was incredibly simple. So how shall we think about what a scaling law is? Yes, let's talk about thatis, because i want that tat at's a good point of departure. It could be something as fundamental,. which is what im want to get into: metabolic rate, how much energy, how much food, if you like,
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