Organisms are subject to the laws of physics, so the process of evolution is constrained by these fundamental laws. Classic and recent studies of the biophysical limits facing organisms have shown how fundamental physical constraints can be used to predict broad-scale relationships between body size and organismal biomechanics and physiology. In this talk I will focus on recent work which derives scaling laws for myriad features of single-cell organisms. I will then show how these laws are useful for ecological modeling, detecting life beyond Earth, and building new types of life. 

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