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"Why do biological processes seem to obey trig like so?"

I'm not sure I would say that biological processes obey anything - merely that we can find it useful to describe real world behaviour in terms of these abstract mathematical functions. Of course, it's interesting to speculate if there is a link between the level of maths required to usefully model the real world and the level of maths we are happy working with - i.e. if the real world was much more complex would we also have developed a much more richer natural ability for mathematics.



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