Scaling 1: Why do we live longer than mice?
Simplifying Complexity
The Number Four Determines the Biosphere Around Us
Logarithmically, all kinds of physiological quantities line up very closely on a straight line. They all have slopes that are simple multiples of the number one quarter. So to boil all this down into something extremely simple, it says that in terms of the way nature scales from the smallest to the largest, it's completely dominated by this extraordinarily simple number One Quarter.
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