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    "abstract": "In this paper we derive a statistical law of Life. It governs the probability\nof death, or complementary of survival, of the living organisms. We have\ndeduced such a law coupling the widely used Weibull statistics, developed for\ndescribing the distribution of the strength of solids, with the universal model\nfor ontogenetic growth only recently proposed by West and co-authors. The main\nidea presented in this paper is that cracks can propagate in solids and cause\ntheir failure as sick cells in living organisms can cause their death. Making a\nrough analogy, living organisms are found to behave as growing mechanical\ncomponents under cyclic, i.e., fatigue, loadings and composed by a dynamic\nevolutionary material that, as an ineluctable fate, deteriorates. The\nimplications on biological scaling laws are discussed. As an example of\napplication, we apply such a statistical law to large data collections on human\ndeaths due to cancer of various types recorded in Italy: a relevant agreement\nis observed.",
    "arxiv_id": "q-bio/0503011",
    "authors": [
      "N. M. Pugno"
    ],
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      "q-bio.PE"
    ],
    "title": "On the Statistical Law of Life",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0503011"
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