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#819 Geoffrey West - Scale; Laws of Life, Growth, and Death in Organisms, Cities, and Companies

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The Origin of Everything

Darwin had already recognized it, and sadly, biologists ignored it for almost the entire history of biology. So with the discovery of the genome, the whole focus became on genes being the origin of sort of everything. For example, you might think if you're a bi, if you didn't know about gravity, you might say, well, I've got a gene for going up, but I better have a gene for returning to Earth. But of course you don't need that because gravity physics brings you down,. That works in a very simple way.

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