A thermodynamic principle accounts for the invariant ~10^9 cardiac cycles in vertebrate lifetimes as a constant entropy budget, with mass-independent scaling laws reproducing the numerical value without free parameters.
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Thermodynamic Parametrisation of the Vertebrate Lifetime Cycle Invariant: Biological Proper Time, Allometric Mass-Cancellation, and Clade-Specific Predictions
A thermodynamic principle accounts for the invariant ~10^9 cardiac cycles in vertebrate lifetimes as a constant entropy budget, with mass-independent scaling laws reproducing the numerical value without free parameters.