A piece on a very interesting biology - one of the first to apply mathematics to biology and an interesting teacher. (audio and transcript). It's part of the Genetics Society Podcast series - which looks potentially fascinating.
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And it was part of that process that, of course, is still very controversial today of trying to, on the one hand, balance fish stocks in the ocean and on the other, the livelihoods of fishermen. And so he was involved in a lot of international negotiations on fishery rights and so on. And so that's really the work that at the time he would have been best known for, but we've kind of forgotten that side of it because of this extraordinary legacy of this amazing book that he wrote called On Growth And Form.
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A bit of the hat to Lev
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