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Personal Inspiration
- Geoffrey West considered his family history of short lifespans.
- This, coupled with the Superconducting Supercollider's demise, inspired his shift to biology.
Heartbeat Universality
- Mammals share a roughly similar number of heartbeats in their lifetime, regardless of size.
- This challenges common perceptions of biological diversity and natural selection.
Metabolic Scaling
- Metabolism, the energy needed to sustain life, scales sublinearly with body size.
- Larger mammals are more efficient, needing less energy per unit mass than smaller ones.