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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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Evolution Is a Big Problem

An organism is made up of an enormous number of components, particularly cells. We have ten, ten trillion, ten to the fourteenth ar and they have to be sustained and serviced in a democratic and efficient fashion. And it's obvious wat what has happened. We've developed networks, these mondf if you think in that those terms - everything from yours, your renal system, even your bones are i big network. The synapses and the nurons and axons are all networks.

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