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Digital Death
Austin Robey • 4 cards
This evolution isn’t unique to sharks - starfish, sea cucumber, crustaceans and other ocean animals are adept in the art of cell regeneration, but sharks are the only fish with this remarkable ability to heal.
Amie Pearce • The self-healing superpower of sharks
Galen, an ancient Greek physician, described kakoethos in terms of chronicity and malignancy. In
Melanie Yergeau • Authoring Autism
They simply continued to get bigger as they aged, until their hearts could no longer support them. Then they died, killed by their body’s own growth imperative.
Brandon Sanderson • The Well of Ascension: Book Two of Mistborn
in specific locations or eat particular foods. They are more prone to extinction. Specialists, therefore, have a harder time maintaining large population sizes because it is common for land conditions to change and for resources such as foods to diminish over time.
Shane Parrish • The Great Mental Models Volume 2: Physics, Chemistry and Biology
For example, the Carboniferous period extended from ~360 to ~300 million years ago, the interval between evolution’s invention of trees and its invention of tree rot. Since there was nothing then to consume the wood when trees died, some of the world’s great coal deposits were laid down during that time.
Steven E. Koonin • Unsettled
From this perspective it comes as no surprise that the growth and mortality curves of companies closely resemble the corresponding growth and mortality curves of organisms.
Geoffrey West • Scale
They acquired genes that protected them from oxygen’s toxic effects. Once shielded, their metabolism evolved to take advantage of oxygen, using it to get energy out of their food far more efficiently than before. Today E. coli can still switch back and forth between its ancient oxygen-free metabolism and its newer network, depending on how much
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