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The Importance of Hyperbolic Equations in Biology
The platypus is more important than just as an exception because it actually had a huge thing to say about mammalian evolution. The physics community keeps us interested in a class of equations called hyperbolic equations that maybe we would discount and we'd stay in the case of elliptic equations. So this happens, I don't know why it comes to mind, but in biology, this happens around mites. Most of us biologists just don't even pay attention to the fact that they're there. But the mite people are really interesting and they have this kind of bent.