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A mouse weighs about one ounce, has a heart rate of 700 beats per minute, a gestation period of 21 days, and lives for less than 3 years. A 5-ton elephant has a heart rate of 30 beats per minute, a 22 month gestation period, a slow metabolic rate and…
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This book is another of those books that made a huge impression on me as a student. It’s also one of the very few popular books that I have kept coming back to over and over throughout my professional career.
Scaling isn’t a natural subject for the popular science treatment, given that so much of the relevant scientific literature revolves around esoteric bickering over the values of exponents, but McGowan does a fantastic job of explaining the physical and physiological principles involved. More importantly, he shows the many ways that an organism’s size affects the way that it lives its…
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