#225 Geoffrey West - Scale: The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies
What Got You There with Sean DeLaney
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The Scaling Law for Sleep
Your brain per unit mass spends much more of your metabolism is going to your brain than it is per gram of tissue in the rest of your body. The bigger you are, the less energy is needed to keep this repair going because there's this three quarter pound scaling law. So that from that, you can derive an interesting scaling law for sleep and see why it is the elephant-sewn sleep for,. only need to sleep for a couple of hours, and whereas a mouse needs to sleep for 16. That system, very similar to a tree, correct?
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