302 | Chris Kempes on the Biophysics of Evolution

4467.522 - 4491.721 Chris Kempes

And so it allows these single cell organisms to live the same lifestyle as sort of a larger size because they sort of don't have as much metabolic demand because everything is slower. And then these spherical organisms, as temperature decreases, they're facing increased viscosity, right? And so their life is a little harder for hunting. And so that's sort of pushing them to be smaller.