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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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How to Maximize Darwinian Fitness by Minimizing the Amount of Energy Our Hearts Have to Do to Pump Blood Through It

Jeffrey Sachs is a physicist at the santa fe institute in Mexico. He has been working on scaling laws of biology for almost a year. His work was inspired by an idea that our hearts have evolved so as to minimize the amount of energy they need to pump blood through it. It's very similar to what we do in field theory and hinge physics, he says.

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