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Geoffrey B. West: The Universal Laws of Growth and Pace

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The Evolution of Life

Mammals are scaled versions of one another to a sort of 1890% degree concerning anything that you can measure about them, any physiological characteristic. We're dealing with something that's maybe the most complex phenomenon in the universe: metabolism. And furthermore, each subsystem, each organ, each cell type, each gene type has its own unique history.

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