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Chris Kempes on The Physical Constraints on Life & Evolution
COMPLEXITY
The One Thing That All Organisms Have in Common
How much energy it takes to maintain a repair in existing unit of material appears to be roughly constant across all of life. And then how muchenergy it takes to manufacture a new unit of mass also appear to be roughly Constant across all these different classes of organisms. So if you take these two things together, then once you have these differences in how metabolic rate changes with size, those constants and this changing metabolic rate with size lead to these really different behaviors in the growth rates.
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