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Even Energy Comes At a Price—Researchers Finally Quantify What’s Needed for Life

Medicine & Technology Sep 17, 2014

Even long before the Darwinian notions of “Survival of the Fittest”, one question has plagued mankind—what is needed to stay alive? With the uniquity of each species, and every individual within them, it has been a question that has long gone unanswered for the diversity and complexity shrouding a unified explanation. But as technology has advanced, making movement and energy consumption easily calculated tangible data, researchers have come closer and closer to an answer.

Hawain monk seal

Even Energy Comes At a Price—Researchers Finally Quantify What’s Needed for Life

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