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Unification of principles is a fundamental goal of science. Four centuries of intense experimental and theoretical research in physics culminated through the work of Kepler, Newton, . . . Einstein in laws applicable from subatomic to cosmological scale. Scaling laws in biology serve the same unification purpose.
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Helsen, J.A., Missirlis, Y. (2010). The Failing Human Machine. In: Biomaterials. Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12532-4_2
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